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Twitter Basic Authentication going away?

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:37 am
by DJF3
This will break my Twitter script!
http://www.botanicalls.com/forums/topic.php?id=36

Twitter announced that they will stop supporting basic authentication starting June 30th. This will break my Twitter script!

They want you to use the oAuth method:
apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Me ... uest_token
more info: support.twitter.com/articles/76052-how- ... plications

That is bad News. I don't know how to program or use that. There are .NET examples:
http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=681

So it looks like we'll have to stop using the WGET. Anyone?

DJ

Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:55 pm
by DJF3
UPDATE: there will be proxy service that does basic authentication. (see comments in the firts URL)

Re: Twitter Basic Authentication going away?

Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:17 pm
by Bwired
Thanks, I also will need to change soon.

Re: Twitter Basic Authentication going away?

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:13 am
by DJF3
With help of a good friend I was able to find an easy workaround. We have tested this and the modified code + instructions are available on my website: http://www.domoticaworld.com

Click on the Twitter script link in the left menu

Re: Twitter Basic Authentication going away?

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:46 am
by RDNZL
Pff.. I have looked at the source of TwitterVB library, it's big, almost more lines of code than my whole DomotiGa program.
So using a proxy service or using library calls to a linux C oauth twitter library is the only reasonable way for me too...

Re: Twitter Basic Authentication going away?

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:30 am
by RDNZL
Great, all these changes and still unsecure...

arstechnica.com/security/guides/2010/09 ... wrong.ars/

Re: Twitter Basic Authentication going away?

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:54 pm
by Bwired
Some more info how to do with classic ASP Vbscript, can work in HS to guess
http://scottdesapio.com/VBScriptOAuth/#exampleCode