To paraphrase Heinlein, 'There is no such thing as a free server." On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > With the proliferation of services like Google App Engine finding free or > cheap sever resources is easy. > Abraham > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 06:09, ryan alford <ryanalford...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Another problem with this approach is that you are now required to have a >> server. So now a developer would have the added expense of paying for a >> server. Now if the developer already had a server, then it's a moot point, >> but not all developers have their own hosted servers. >> What happens when your server goes down, or your hosting provider has >> connectivity problems? Your app is now dead, even though Twitter is still >> functioning normally. >> Ryan >> >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Anton Krasovsky >> <anton.krasov...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> With all that talk about OAuth, I thought I might share my experience >>> using it in for a mobile (j2me) twitter client. >>> >>> I guess my approach is nothing new, and probably is not applicable to >>> iPhone apps because of the appstore distribution process, but anyways. >>> >>> So the way I handle OAuth is as follows: >>> >>> All application downloads are handled by my own server. Before >>> allowing user to download the app I initiate OAuth authorization with >>> Twitter and then, save user tokens along with generated unique id for >>> a user. >>> >>> Once authorized, user is permitted to download the application which >>> is tagged with that unique user id I generated earlier. >>> >>> Once user starts the app, it uses it's id to authenticate itself to my >>> server. >>> >>> All communicatin between Twitter and user's appication is >>> handled/proxied by the server that performs all necessary oauth >>> signing on behalf of the user. >>> >>> So, this way I have all benefits of using OAuth in a mobile app. >>> >>> The only drawback really, is that user must visit my web site at least >>> once to perform authorization. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Anton >>> http://pavo.me >> > > > > -- > Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am > Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
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