Sessions are not officially supported. You might as well just to include
credentials with all calls.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 18:57, Adrian <spiritpo...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, on my client, if I run GET request, I'll have to authenticate but
> after that all other GETs don't require authentication. Then, as soon
> as there is a POST, I will have to re-authenticate. I'd prefer the
> server just accepted the POST request as part of the session from the
> already authenticated user and didn't reask for credentials. See
> headers below: GET Request > Authenticate > POST Request > Fail
>
>
>
>
> http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json?callback=jsonp1239486621989&_=1239493435268
>
> GET /account/verify_credentials.json?
> callback=jsonp1239486621989&_=1239493435268 HTTP/1.1
> Host: twitter.com
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:
> 1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8
> Accept: */*
> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> Keep-Alive: 300
> Connection: keep-alive
> Authorization: Basic ZGVzbWlkaXNvOmd3dHdnd3R3
>
> HTTP/1.x 200 OK
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:44:15 GMT
> Server: hi
> Last-Modified: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:44:15 GMT
> Status: 200 OK
> Etag: "a69811ab820044f3fcad85ed061bb512"-gzip
> Pragma: no-cache
> Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-
> check=0
> Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
> Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT
> X-Revision: 0d279c956b77447dc8b68179a828f0d93a6e93e3
> X-Transaction: 1239493455-52742-21090
> Set-Cookie: lang=; path=/
> Set-Cookie:
> _twitter_sess=BAh7CToJdXNlcmkEKCLNAToTcGFzc3dvcmRfdG9rZW4iLWFkNmEzZGQzMzli
>
> %250AOGRiZTE5YmViNTFlYzAwODZhYjRhZjE3NGY1OTE6B2lkIiU4MjAwYTFmYTA5%250AM2I4ZWUxYTEzNmJlOTQ4NmZlNzgzOCIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29udHJv
> %250AbGxlcjo6Rmxhc2g6OkZsYXNoSGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7AA%253D%253D--
> b68d85bbacedd2a15c46152c514ac78fc30c1873; domain=.twitter.com; path=/
> Vary: Accept-Encoding
> Content-Encoding: gzip
> Content-Length: 491
> Connection: close
>
> ------------
> https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
>
> POST /statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1
> Host: twitter.com
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:
> 1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8
> Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/
> *;q=0.8
> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> Keep-Alive: 300
> Connection: keep-alive
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> Content-Length: 53
> source=Twitya&in_reply_to_status_id=&status=Hello+God
> HTTP/1.x 401 Unauthorized
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:47:38 GMT
> Server: hi
> Status: 401 Unauthorized
> WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Twitter API"
> Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=1800
> Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
> Set-Cookie:
> _twitter_sess=BAh7BzoHaWQiJTc2OGQzNGEzNzlhNWYyNjliNTI1NDIzZTYxYmU4ZjkyIgpm
> %250AbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAG
> %250AOgpAdXNlZHsA--546494cea99c2f48565af4f437ae265f04ed6bc6;
> domain=.twitter.com; path=/
> Expires: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:17:38 GMT
> Vary: Accept-Encoding
> Content-Encoding: gzip
> Content-Length: 135
> Connection: close
>
>


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