Hi Suresh, This library for AS3 supports OAuth, though I can't speak to how well-written or to-spec it is. http://code.google.com/p/oauth-as3/
Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Suresh Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > Is there any api for as3 available? > > Suresh Kumar > > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Taylor Singletary < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Basic authentication, which is the method of sending a username and >> password on each API call through HTTP Basic Auth, is going away in June. >> The best path to implementing secure authentication that doesn't put users >> at risk is OAuth ( http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth_overview and >> http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth ) >> >> For certain kinds of applications that do not have ready access to a web >> browser and who would rather eschew the entire OAuth out-of-band flow (which >> is more appropriate and introduces less risk at the cost of what some may >> perceive as a poorer user experience), we offer xAuth on an approval-basis. >> xAuth still requires implementing most of the OAuth standard, but allows you >> to exchange a username and password, with the user's permission, for an >> OAuth access token. You would then dispose of the login and password given >> by the user and use an access token, which the user can revoke at any time, >> to access resources on the member's behalf. You can read about xAuth at >> http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauth . >> >> Taylor Singletary >> Developer Advocate, Twitter >> http://twitter.com/episod >> >> >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Sigma <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm a newbie. i want to know how to get username and password from >>> folks accessing my application and tweet on behalf of them? Is this >>> the basic authentication twitter is about to close by june? And is >>> there any way to get this work done? i don't know where to start. >>> kindly reply with tutorials or explanations. >>> >>> Thanks in Advance. >>> >> >> >
