Is this a feature or a bug? It would be very handy to use it this way ... if it was a feature ...
Ole -- Jan Ole Suhr s...@mobileways.de On Twitter: http://twitter.com/janole On Jul 15, 11:14 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > A users access_token for a single application wont change unless it gets > revoked (and maybe an edgecase or two). You can have your users authorized > your app with xAuth and once they go through the web flow from any browser > the access_token already in the application will beg upgraded to access DMs. > Just make sure you use the same consumer key both times. > > Abraham > ------------- > Abraham Williams | InboxQ <http://inboxq.com/> | abrah.am > @abraham <https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=abraham> | > github.com/abraham | blog.abrah.am > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:00, Garry <taylor.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I need to use xAuth to access Twitter, my platform of choice (IBM AS/ > > 400) has no GUI, and no web browser, so OAuth is out. > > > I need to read direct messages, now xAuth won't let me do that as I > > need to ask my users to authorize for direct message access (even > > though, not one has complained). > > > Running OAuth on the AS/400 is not going to happen, but I wonder is it > > possible to make a basic app on Windows, or the web to allow my users > > to re-enable Direct Message access, but actually do the reading > > through xAuth? I know it's a long shot, but it's the only one I've got > > at the moment. > > > Basically, I'm talking about making a skeleton application to let my > > users push the various OAuth relative buttons, but keep on reading in > > my usual xAuth way? > > > Thanks > > > Garry > > > -- > > Have you visited the Developer Discussions feature on > >https://dev.twitter.com/discussionsyet? > > > Twitter developer links: > > Documentation and resources:https://dev.twitter.com/docs > > API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi > > > Unsubscribe or change your group membership settings: > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe -- Have you visited the Developer Discussions feature on https://dev.twitter.com/discussions yet? Twitter developer links: Documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/docs API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Unsubscribe or change your group membership settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe
