Re: [twitter-dev] Problem in getting rate-limit status with OAuth.

2010-05-05 Thread Rushikesh Bhanage
Hi Taylor, Thank you for your reply first. I think I could not explain my problem properly. OK first thing is my app does not have two users only, there are n number of users that are going to visit the website, the two users I mentioned are white listed user accounts, that I want to

Re: [twitter-dev] Problem in getting rate-limit status with OAuth.

2010-05-05 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Rushikesh, You won't be able to use your two whitelisted accounts to enquire about rate limiting for other accounts. Think of an access token as essentially the user. Your consumer key is essentially your application. In basic auth, these two concepts were more intertwined. In the world of

[twitter-dev] Problem in getting rate-limit status with OAuth.

2010-05-04 Thread Rushikesh Bhanage
Hi there, I am studying Abraham's code on github for Oauth to deal with my problem. In my app, user is not going to do authentication. I have two account with(username/password) and I have to use it to get ratelimit status. Studying code shows that, it is redirected(redirect.php) to

Re: [twitter-dev] Problem in getting rate-limit status with OAuth.

2010-05-04 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Rushikesh, You're asking a few things here, so I'll try to help clear them up: - Your app will need to do some kind of authentication for each of the users. If your application is a web application, and you plan to have more than just the two users you've mentioned, you'll want to implement

Re: [twitter-dev] Problem in getting rate-limit status with OAuth.

2010-05-04 Thread Gaurav Shaha
Like Rushikesh i am also facing same problem, before my application start working i need to check weather i have ample of call remaining to complete my task for that i had white listed my 2-3 accounts. so the idea that i am thinking is if the OAuth shall give me the remaining call then as per

Re: [twitter-dev] Problem in getting rate-limit status with OAuth.

2010-05-04 Thread Taylor Singletary
Switching accounts to get around whitelisting is not in the spirit of the reason whitelisting exists. If your application needs more requests than the default rate limits provided to applications, you should request being whitelisted for increased rate limits. You can apply for expanded rate