Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth best practice

2010-01-18 Thread ryan alford
You are correct. The PIN handshaking is only for Desktop Apps. Ryan On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:12 AM, eco_bach bac...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff, I might be wrong, as there seems to be some confusion on this, but I believe the extra PIN handshaking is ONLY required for what Twitter defines as

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth best practice

2010-01-18 Thread Jeff Enderwick
Is a mobile app more like a desktop app or a web app? The PIN in the 'desktop' flow handles this in the 'non-desktop' flow: Once Jane approves the request, Faji marks the Request Token as User-authorized by Jane. Jane’s browser is redirected back to Beppa, to the URL previously provided

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth best practice

2010-01-18 Thread ryan alford
Native mobile apps(native Android, native IPhone, etc., meaning they run on the device itself and NOT in the browser) are considered Desktop apps. Yes, the mobile UX is one of the biggest issues with Twitter's OAuth implementation. Ryan On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Jeff Enderwick

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth best practice

2010-01-18 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Jan 18, 11:48 am, Jeff Enderwick jeff.enderw...@gmail.com wrote: mobile browser cpu/mem requirement mobile twitter client cpu/mem requirement. Yeah ... I don't develop mobile apps, but I suspect you're right. It's too bad pure HTML has such a lame user experience, because if you could live

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth best practice

2010-01-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Jan 17, 10:46 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: It is best practice to always send the user to Twitter in their browser of choice not embedded in another webpage/application. Abraham Thanks! I was just about to code something up to do it the other way!