Re: [twitter-dev] Re: HTTPS profile and profile background image URLs are being added to user objects

[Taylor Singletary]

Developers may choose to use the API in SSL but serve their websites without
encryption. Not all uses of the API are in a web context. This allows a
developer to choose the image most appropriate for their end-user's scenario
whether they are connected to the API using SSL or otherwise. Better to make
its usage a deliberate decision on the developer's part.

@episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Terence Eden <terence.e...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank for implementing my suggestion ;-) (http://shkspr.mobi/blog/
> index.php/2011/05/a-minor-twitter-privacy-bug/)
> A quick question. Why add a new field?  Why not use the existing one
> IFF the request came over HTTPS?
>
> On May 16, 11:27 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > Later this week we'll start to add two new fields to the user object
> > responses from the Streaming and REST APIs (not Search). Due to caching,
> not
> > all objects will have these fields immediately so you should check they
> are
> > present in the response before using them.
> >
> > The two additional fields are the SSL versions of the profile_image_url
> and
> > the profile_background_image_url. They will be identified in the user
> object
> > by the attributes:
> >     profile_image_https
> >     profile_background_image_url_https
> >
> > For example, the @twitter user would look similar to this:
> > {
> >   "profile_background_tile": false,
> >   "name": "Twitter",
> >   "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "F6F6F6",
> >   "profile_sidebar_border_color": "EEEEEE",
> >   "location": "San Francisco, CA",
> >   "created_at": "Tue Feb 20 14:35:54 +0000 2007",
> >   "profile_image_url": "
> http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png";,
> >   "id_str": "783214",
> >   "is_translator": false,
> >   "profile_link_color": "038543",
> >   "follow_request_sent": false,
> >   "default_profile": false,
> >   "contributors_enabled": true,
> >   "favourites_count": 10,
> >   "url": "http://twitter.com";,
> >   "utc_offset": -28800,
> >   "id": 783214,
> >   "profile_image_url_https": "
> https://si2.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png";,
> >   "listed_count": 58963,
> >   "profile_use_background_image": true,
> >   "lang": "en",
> >   "protected": false,
> >   "profile_text_color": "333333",
> >   "followers_count": 5063298,
> >   "notifications": false,
> >   "geo_enabled": true,
> >   "verified": true,
> >   "profile_background_color": "ACDED6",
> >   "profile_background_image_url_https": "
> https://si2.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif";,
> >   "description": "Always wondering what's happening. ",
> >   "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
> >   "statuses_count": 1111,
> >   "friends_count": 487,
> >   "default_profile_image": false,
> >   "profile_background_image_url": "
> http://a1.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif";,
> >   "status": {
> >     "coordinates": null,
> >     "created_at": "Mon May 16 17:23:59 +0000 2011",
> >     "truncated": false,
> >     "favorited": false,
> >     "id_str": "70177690392592384",
> >     "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
> >     "text": "Remember in 2009 when @aplusk and @cnn were racing to be the
> > 1st to reach a million followers? @ladygaga just reached 10 million.
> Wow!",
> >     "annotations": null,
> >     "contributors": [
> >       16739704
> >     ],
> >     "id": 70177690392592384,
> >     "retweet_count": "100+",
> >     "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
> >     "geo": null,
> >     "retweeted": false,
> >     "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
> >     "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
> >     "source": "web",
> >     "place": null,
> >     "in_reply_to_status_id": null
> >   },
> >   "screen_name": "twitter",
> >   "show_all_inline_media": true,
> >   "following": true
> >
> > }
> >
> > Best,
> > @themattharris
> > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
>
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