David,
That is our intention, as mentioned in past discussion and documented on the
FAQ:

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#WhenwillTwittersupportOAuth<http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ>

Thanks,
Doug
--

Doug Williams
Twitter Platform Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:21 AM, David Troyer <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I would just like to put in my two cents that I think this has to be
> addressed before basic auth is taken away.  I am currently developing
> a mobile app that would not be possible with oauth.
>
> David Troyer
>
> On Apr 20, 1:29 am, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > We are still thinking internally about how we want to get around the
> browser
> > for OAuth token requests. Although, at this time we don't have a
> particular
> > implementation to share.
> >
> > Doug Williams
> > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jeff Bishop <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >  Doug,
> >
> > > I think if the user could log in to Twitter from a link and then be
> > > redirected to a place where the code could be shown to paste into the
> > > desktop application then that would work fine.  Heck, you could even
> put a
> > > "copy to clipboard" button on that page so that the user could paste it
> in.
> > > Is this something planned or does it already exist?
> >
> > > Jeff
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > *From:* Doug Williams <[email protected]>
> > > *To:* [email protected]
> > > *Sent:* Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:22 PM
> > > *Subject:* [twitter-dev] Re: oAUTH - can it be done without interaction
> > > with a core browser?
> >
> > > The call 
> > > tohttp://twitter.com/oauth/authorize(or<http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize%28or>the
> > >  Sign in with
> > > Twitter equivalenthttp://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate) requires a
> > > browser to render the HTML necessary for the user prompt. This is a
> > > limitation we recognize with the current beta release of the OAuth
> > > implementation.
> >
> > > Doug Williams
> > > Twitter API Support
> > >http://twitter.com/dougw
> >
> > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Guan Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 14:37, Jeff Bishop <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >> > 1.  Get all of the required items from the user outside of Twitter's
> > >> > interface?
> > >> > 2.  Authenticate (like with basic auth of some type using XML
> posts)?
> > >> > 3.  Be able to post back to get the token information.
> >
> > >> I'm not completely sure what you want, but you could do something like
> > >> this:
> >
> > >> - Obtain a request token and secret.
> > >> - Start up a browser and send the user to
> > >>http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize
> > >> - Display a button that says something like "click here when you're
> done"
> > >> - When the user clicks that button, assume that you're authorized with
> > >> Twitter, and make a request to obtain the access token.
> > >> - If that's not the case, repeat the process.
> >
> > >> The point is that you don't really need any information back through
> > >> the callback other than the fact that the user has completed the
> > >> authorization process. But that can be accomplished simply by having
> > >> the user click a button.
> >
> > >> If you are able to register URI schemes in the operating system that
> > >> will launch your app, there is a different way of doing this. Suppose
> > >> you've registered mycoolapp:// with the operating system. Then you can
> > >> supply an oauth_callback parameter to
> > >>http://twitter.com/oauth/authorizethat looks something like this:
> >
> > >> mycoolapp://twitter-authorize-complete
> >
> > >> After successful authorization, Twitter will then redirect to
> something
> > >> like
> >
> > >>
> mycoolapp://twitter-authorize-complete?oauth_token=xxx&screen_name=guan&user_id=1234&other_params=values
> >
> > >> That way your app will automatically be launched after authorization
> > >> and you can call access_token at that point.
> >
> > >> Guan
>

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