I also have this issue with one of my applications. We are using an automated twitter account to post updates as a Twitter feed. The OAuth authentication process requires a user to be redirected to Twitter to enter the username and password to authorize a request token in order to provide controlled access to an application while keeping the user's credentials secure. For these type of accounts we know the username and password and so the OAuth process is superfluous in these circumstances. The only way I can think of to do this, after Basic Authentication is removed, feels a bit dirty but is as follows:
1) Call the request_token API method using the consumer keys 2) HTTP GET the authorize API method using the request tokens 3) Regex the resulting response to extract form variables and tokens 4) HTTP POST the action parameter of the form (make sure follow redirects is on) including the extracted form variables, the username and the password 5) Extract returned parameters from the response 6) Follow the remainder of the OAuth process Is there a better method for doing this? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
