Re: How do I find out who I am?

2008-11-27 Thread Shahid Faiz
I am also using user's id for such kind of purpose by making a call to twitter.com/users/show/login_name.xml. IIRC there is some thread which discussed the possibility of returning user profile information as response of authentication request. - shahid On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:20 PM, elaverick

Re: Twitter, Push APIs and XMPP

2008-11-27 Thread bham
ah ok that is neat. eta? On Nov 27, 12:34 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's HTTP-push.  You open a socket, we push data to you.  The > transport just happens to be HTTP. > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 23:18, bham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > @fastest963: Well I was thinking

Re: HTML payload when expecting JSON response

2008-11-27 Thread FrankieShakes
Hey Matt, I received the error message again this morning. It always returns the same error message in the HTML body: --- Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon. --- I suspect nobody's around a

Re: Redirect from POST?

2008-11-27 Thread Dan Phiffer
Oh wait, I think I can use iframes. Nevermind all that. On Nov 27, 11:57 am, Dan Phiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been playing around with building a Twitter client in pure > Javascript and it's actually working better than I'd expected. The > only real hiccup I've encountere

Re: Twitter, Push APIs and XMPP

2008-11-27 Thread Alex Payne
It's HTTP-push. You open a socket, we push data to you. The transport just happens to be HTTP. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 23:18, bham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > @fastest963: Well I was thinking of using Twitter for some nice simple > automated communication and for my application 10-15s is a l

Redirect from POST?

2008-11-27 Thread Dan Phiffer
Hi all, I've been playing around with building a Twitter client in pure Javascript and it's actually working better than I'd expected. The only real hiccup I've encountered so far is with API calls that require the use of POST. Since I'm relying on JsonP to get off-domain, I think these POST call

Re: How do I find out who I am?

2008-11-27 Thread elaverick
Yeah but the problem is someone can provide their e-mail address as a valid login and if that's compared to the username its never going to match. UserID is invariant and so should be easier to deal with. On Nov 26, 8:53 pm, "Abraham Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure that em