An Arduino.

And yes, that's a vanishingly small minority of of users.

#imaginationfail



On 19 May 2011, at 16:20, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:

> Can you name a modern device on which people will want a client with access 
> to direct messages, without a webbrowser? I can't.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On 5/19/11 5:17 PM, Adriaan Pelzer wrote:
>> 
>> Understood. In other words, there is no way to consume the authenticated 
>> parts of the Twitter API on devices without web browsers anymore?
>> 
>> This severe limitation will haunt Twitter in future, without a doubt.
>> 
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>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Tom van der Woerdt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Like I mentioned in my post - use the actual browser which includes an 
>> address bar (that's what it's about - without the address bar the user 
>> doesn't know it's actually twitter.com and you might just as well use xAuth, 
>> lol). Use a callback URL which includes a custom scheme 
>> (myapp://oauth_redirect, for example) and catch this URL in your code.
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/19/11 4:58 PM, Adriaan Pelzer wrote:
>>> 
>>> If using a UIWebView is against the TOS, how should app developers 
>>> (standalone apps, that is) authenticate without xauth, in the light of 
>>> yesterday's announcements?
>>> 
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>>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tom van der Woerdt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 1. Yep
>>> 2. NO. There's no difference in oauth/authorize and oauth/authenticate, 
>>> except that authenticate will simply pass the "accept/deny" screen if the 
>>> user has already accepted the app. Also, don't display it in a WebView, use 
>>> the normal browser instead and use a callback URL with a custom scheme - 
>>> for example myapp://. Let the browser redirect this URL back to the app. 
>>> Again, do NOT use a UIWebView - I'm pretty sure that that's against the 
>>> TOS, and if it's not, it soon will be.
>>> 3. Yep
>>> 4. Yes, you will need to store the consumer token and secret in the code, 
>>> and store the user's token and secret in the keychain (or somewhere else, 
>>> secure).
>>> 
>>> The OAuth flow is no different for mobile devices than for desktops.
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5/19/11 4:45 PM, Andrew W. Donoho wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Gentle Twitter Support Folks,
>>>> 
>>>>  There is an ambiguity in the OAuth flow for mobile devices. As I now have 
>>>> little time to move from xAuth to OAuth, I would appreciate it if Twitter 
>>>> Support would confirm the following OAuth flow which uses your routes.
>>>> 
>>>> 1) Use "POST oauth/request_token" to get the access token needed for the 
>>>> user web dialog.
>>>> 
>>>> 2) Upon receiving the request token, open a web view using "GET 
>>>> oauth/authorize". This is the ambiguous path for mobile devices. It is 
>>>> specified that this path must be used for desktop devices. As a mobile 
>>>> device is really a wireless desktop device, I believe Twitter wants me to 
>>>> use this route in lieu of "GET oauth/authenticate". Other vendors also 
>>>> allow the specification of whether this is a mobile device. They then 
>>>> provide a web authorization dialog appropriate for a narrow screen. It 
>>>> does not appear that Twitter offers this functionality. Could you please 
>>>> confirm this? Finally, as my app runs on an iPad, what is the preferred 
>>>> web view width? (To support both portrait and landscape orientations, it 
>>>> needs to be less than 768 pixels. 600 pixels is a common, Apple suggested, 
>>>> width.) Could you please enlighten me to what is Twitter's preferred       
>>>>                                     authorization web view width?
>>>> 
>>>> 3) Use "GET oauth/authenticate" to acquire the access token and access 
>>>> secret.
>>>> 
>>>> 4) As I haven't yet requested my new consumer key and, hence, do not know 
>>>> some things, will I                                           also be 
>>>> maintaining a consumer secret for my OAuth signature mechanism?
>>>> 
>>>>  Thank you for your support.
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Anon,
>>>> Andrew
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> P.S. Thank you for the two week extension for our xAuth to OAuth 
>>>> transition. Because Apple may still reject my app for unrelated to Twitter 
>>>> issues, four weeks is still a totally inadequate period to ensure a zero 
>>>> downtime transition. Please recognize both the risks to our business and 
>>>> the hardship you are imposing on small organizations. Furthermore, Apple's 
>>>> WWDC conference occurs in the middle of your current conversion schedule, 
>>>> this only allows me, in effect, 3 weeks to make this change. You can 
>>>> really hurt us with your imposed schedule. While I doubt that is your 
>>>> intent, it is, nonetheless, a likely outcome. Please double, at least, 
>>>> your conversion period to 8 weeks. 
>>>> 
>>>> ____________________________________
>>>> Andrew W. Donoho
>>>> Donoho Design Group, L.L.C.
>>>> [email protected], +1 (512) 750-7596, twitter.com/adonoho
>>>> 
>>>> "When you can't imagine how things are going to change, 
>>>>     that doesn't mean that nothing will change.
>>>>         It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable."
>>>>             Bruce Sterling, January 02, 2009
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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