[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth necessary when I don't need to take over people's accounts?

2009-07-23 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 22, 6:55 pm, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.com wrote: It will improve the security of your account since it won't be sending username/password in plaintext anymore. Although I think the OAuth keys are also in plaintext? But thanks, I'll try to use it.

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth necessary when I don't need to take over people's accounts?

2009-07-23 Thread Abraham Williams
Both OAuth and BasicAuth can be used over https. Abraham On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:45, Bjoern bjoer...@googlemail.com wrote: On Jul 22, 6:55 pm, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.com wrote: It will improve the security of your account since it won't be sending username/password in plaintext

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth necessary when I don't need to take over people's accounts?

2009-07-22 Thread Grant Emsley
It will improve the security of your account since it won't be sending username/password in plaintext anymore. It's not that much more complicated to do. In fact, if you are just doing it for one account, you can run the sample code for oauth, write down the access token and secret, and just