I am also using APi to develop my application. I am facing a problem with the protected user. If user protect their updates on the Twiiter Site. I am unable to get the tweets of that person. Is there any way to get that. Second i can't receive any notification that other person has send you a request to foolow yon.
Thanks, Deepak On Feb 3, 10:31 am, dougw <[email protected]> wrote: > Naveen, > Storing user credentials is never ideal but with basic auth, > applications that want to make occasional calls to the API must retain > a local copy of the credentials. Each request to a credential- > protected API method requires credentials for authentication. > Obviously this is not ideal, but the current API model is session- > less. > > Your second question is yes. It will be nice, won't it? > > @dougw > > On Feb 2, 11:52 am, Naveen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have some basic questions (I am still learning this world) regarding > > fetching another user's timeline... > > > 1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed for "protected > > updates", then does that mean that a third party website that purports > > to fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and password > > to repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth while > > fetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or is > > there a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a user > > specific credential on a long term basis? > > > 2. When twitter moves to using oauth, will there be a way for other > > friend > > networks to continuously be able to fetch a twitter user's feed after > > first time Oauth based authorization by using the user specific token > > on a long-term basis? > > > Naveen
