The basic flow for a desktop app is:

1: app gets token from twitter behind the scenes.
2: sends user to twitter in browser with part of request token in
querystring.
3: user approves access on twitter.
4: user comes back to app and clicks on a continue button.
5: app behind the scene trades request token for access token.
6: app saves access token and interacts with the API.

A good example to look at is Flickr's Uploadr app.

Abraham

2009/3/16 Joshua Perry <[email protected]>

>
> I am attempting to get our desktop Twitter application ready for OAuth;
> we were not in the business of creating an application when the OAuth
> beta happened or we probably would have applied to join.
>
> Is Twitter going to be using querystring, cookie, or the form field
> based method of passing the access token?
>
> Are there any gotchas with Twitter OAuth that I may want to take into
> account?
>
> I looked through the Ruby example but most of the functionality is down
> in the OAuth gem.
>
> Josh
>



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