Hi Raffi, I've sent an eMail to [email protected] requesting permission to use xAuth in my S60 Twitter Client Gravity. Just curious if there's any ETA for granting access to xAuth and/or providing documentation.
Many thanks in advance, Ole -- Jan Ole Suhr [email protected] On Twitter: http://twitter.com/janole On 12 Feb., 16:16, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > what i would do (with that caveat that i'm speaking as myself and not > necessarily as a twitter employee ;P): > > make a proxy that uses xauth - you could still ask for a username/password, > use xauth to do the exchange with twitter, and then proxy the basic auth to > oauth. the caveat is that i stated that xauth will not be allowed for "web > applications", but i can think of a few creative ways around that. > > alternatively, assuming that your proxy can still see twitter.com (it is > positioned somewhere where the DNS isn't poisoned), then there is nothing > preventing that proxy from doing the oauth web workflow on behalf of the > user. definitely not kosher, and may not scale... > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:40 AM, yegle <[email protected]> wrote: > > I read the WRAP draft. I have to say that it's much simpler than OAuth > > 1.0a. > > It doesn't need too much modification to twitter client to support API > > proxy, if xauth is widely available. > > > Thank you all for your replies and concerns :-) > > > On Feb 12, 7:04 pm, yegle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Oh yes I forgot that HTTP proxy resolves the domain name at server > > > side :-) > > > > On Feb 12, 6:18 pm, Harshad RJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:17 PM, yegle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Nope, it doesn't work :-( > > > > > All DNS queries to twitter.com inside China is poisoned and all > > > > > twitter's available IP is blocked. > > > > > Oh btw, I meant HTTPS proxies that sit outside the firewall. > > > > > I assume that DNS queries for twitter.com would be run by the proxy > > server > > > > and not the client. (Tried to RTFM but still not very familiar with the > > > > protocol) > > > > > -- > > > > Harshad RJhttp://hrj.wikidot.com > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi
