Re: [twitter-dev] What Is The Status of Twitter OAuth?

2009-11-30 Thread JDG
Did you not use gmail till it went out of beta too? :)

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:27, Dewald Pretorius  wrote:

> Last information I've seen said that Twitter OAuth is in public beta,
> if I remember correctly.
>
> Has that status changed, as in, has OAuth been moved out of beta and
> into production?
>
> The reason I ask is I notice on help.twitter.com that all Twitter
> users are now essentially being advised to distrust applications that
> use Basic Auth. The page also says, "We recommend that all third-party
> applications connect through OAuth connection, as described
> above." [1]
>
> How can you say that if OAuth is not yet in stable production mode??
>
> Dewald
>
> [1] http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/76052
>



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Re: [twitter-dev] What Is The Status of Twitter OAuth?

2009-11-30 Thread ryan alford
He's not referring to OAuth the specification.  He is referring to Twitter's
implementation of it.

Ryan

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Chris Babcock wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:27:24 -0800 (PST)
> Dewald Pretorius  wrote:
>
> > Last information I've seen said that Twitter OAuth is in public beta,
> > if I remember correctly.
> >
> > Has that status changed, as in, has OAuth been moved out of beta and
> > into production?
>
> This doesn't look beta to me:
> http://oauth.net/core/1.0a
>
> A is a revision code, not alpha.
>
> Chris
>
>


Re: [twitter-dev] What Is The Status of Twitter OAuth?

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Babcock
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:27:24 -0800 (PST)
Dewald Pretorius  wrote:

> Last information I've seen said that Twitter OAuth is in public beta,
> if I remember correctly.
> 
> Has that status changed, as in, has OAuth been moved out of beta and
> into production?

This doesn't look beta to me:
http://oauth.net/core/1.0a

A is a revision code, not alpha.

Chris



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Re: [twitter-dev] What Is The Status of Twitter OAuth?

2009-11-30 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Dewald Pretorius  wrote:
>
> How can you say that if OAuth is not yet in stable production mode??

Because there have been several sites that used Twitter user's login
for nefarious purposes, and Twitter wants to start getting people out
of the habit of blindly trusting any site that asks for their twitter
information.

TjL
not speaking for Twitter Inc.