Yeah there is, albeit not a very nice one: You can do http://user:p...@site/
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:24, Josh Roesslein <jroessl...@gmail.com> wrote: > How is that scrapping? He is just launching IE and pointing the browser at > a twitter web page for viewing. > As long as he does not parse that page for data and just uses it to display > that's not scrapping. > Now I don't think there is a legit way of passing login credentials, that > the user will have to do > on there own. > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Stuart <stut...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 2009/8/26 balu reghu <baluk...@gmail.com>: >> > >> > Hi all, >> > Can i pass my credentials to browser.I am working on a twitter >> > application. >> > On a click i am trying to show the twitter site. If i have the >> > credentials with me.Can i make the user view his tweets without login >> > (again) >> > >> > this is my code >> > >> > on a click >> > Process.Start(@"\Windows\iexplore.exe", >> > "http://m.twitter.com/search/ >> > users?q=" + "tbsearch.Text"); >> > >> > In this case the browser will show a popup .asking for user name and >> > password.Is there any way to pass the credentials? >> >> That is not an API call so what you're doing is scraping the Twitter >> site. They don't like you doing that and it will likely get your IP >> blocked if you keep doing it. >> >> -Stuart >> >> -- >> http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ >> > > > > -- > Josh > -- Internets. Serious business.
