[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Stuart
2009/8/26 balu reghu baluk...@gmail.com: Hi all, Can i pass my credentials to browser.I am working on a twitter application. On a click i am trying to show the twitter site. If i have the credentials with me.Can i make the user view his tweets without login (again) this is my code on a

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Badera
Not HIS IP -- that's a client process there. That will be spread around individual client IPs, which being mobile are probably highly dynamic. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Badera
Actually ... IS that PocketIE, or is that Internet Explorer on a desktop? If desktop, why are you scraping the mobile page? On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: Not HIS IP -- that's a client process there. That will be spread around individual client IPs,

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Joseph Cheek
it doesn't appear that he's scraping at all. he's just starting a process to show the user's twitter page and wants to have the user logged in already. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com @cheekdotcom Andrew Badera wrote: Actually ... IS that PocketIE, or is that Internet Explorer on a desktop?

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Josh Roesslein
How is that scrapping? He is just launching IE and pointing the browser at a twitter web page for viewing. As long as he does not parse that page for data and just uses it to display that's not scrapping. Now I don't think there is a legit way of passing login credentials, that the user will have

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread JDG
Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can do http://user:p...@site/ On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:24, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: How is that scrapping? He is just launching IE and pointing the browser at a twitter web page for viewing. As long as he does not parse that

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread jim.renkel
Fortunately, when I tried that it didn't work. Jim On Aug 26, 11:29 am, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can dohttp://user:p...@site/ On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:24, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.com wrote: How is that scrapping? He is just

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Stuart
2009/8/26 JDG ghil...@gmail.com: Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can do http://user:p...@site/ That will only work with the API. The main site (and mobile site) uses session-based authentication, not basic. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread Stuart
2009/8/26 Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com: it doesn't appear that he's scraping at all.  he's just starting a process to show the user's twitter page and wants to have the user logged in already. Quite right too - I didn't read it properly. Sorry. Unfortunately there's no way to automatically

[twitter-dev] Re: Pass credentials to browser

2009-08-26 Thread JDG
touche On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:06, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/26 JDG ghil...@gmail.com: Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can do http://user:p...@site/ That will only work with the API. The main site (and mobile site) uses session-based authentication, not