Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-13 Thread ryan alford
I've been using OAuth for more than 3 months now, about 8 hours a day during the week while at work, using my own library and my own twitter client. I've never had an issue with stability. Now the desktop implementation is crappy(been posted about 50 billion times), but other than that, I've

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-13 Thread Tim Haines
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:52 AM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: I've been using OAuth for more than 3 months now, about 8 hours a day during the week while at work, using my own library and my own twitter client. I've never had an issue with stability. Now the desktop

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-13 Thread ryan alford
I agree. I believe OAuth for mobile and the delegation between apps are the biggest concerns that need to be addressed before the depreciation of basic oauth in June. Both of these have been beaten to a pulp. However, these issues certainly do not push OAuth into an unstable beta state that

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-13 Thread Josh Roesslein
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: If that is the reason for disallowing the source param, why is this policy not being applied uniformly? How would users of Tweetie, Twitterrific, etc. feel if all their updates now said 'from web'? How would the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-12 Thread Raffi Krikorian
What is the reason for no longer allowing the source parameter for Basic Auth desktop apps? the ability to forge the source parameter is too easy when simply using basic auth. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Reinstate 'from app' for Basic Auth desktop apps until OAuth is fixed

2010-01-12 Thread Raffi Krikorian
If that is the reason for disallowing the source param, why is this policy not being applied uniformly? How would users of Tweetie, Twitterrific, etc. feel if all their updates now said 'from web'? How would the developers of those apps feel? those applications have been grandfathered in --