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joshua stein

why did @twitterapi have to disable basic auth completely? it's a pain in the ass to deal with oauth in every little private piece of code

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on aug 31st, 2010 at 13:25
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Jason Dixon (authentic, via twitter) on august 31st, 2010 at 13:59:40:

.@jcs New web service idea... basic auth proxy to @twitterapi OAuth.

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Jef Poskanzer (authentic, via twitter) on august 31st, 2010 at 14:02:17:

OAuth is not actually that hard to add. See: http://fanf.livejournal.com/108436.html

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Twitter API (authentic, via twitter) on august 31st, 2010 at 14:30:30:

because the same ease it gives you the developer is dangerous for users, developers, & Twitter. ^TS

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Matthew Scharley (authentic, via twitter) on august 31st, 2010 at 22:20:04:

Agreed, also some cases where oauth just don't make sense. Our twitter feeds died, but oauth makes no sense for public source.

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