single-user oauth?

[Corinne]

The application I'm building only needs access to my organization's
own Tumblr account, so I am trying implement single-user OAuth, as
described in Twitter's docs : https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/oauth/single-user-with-examples

I'm new to OAuth, but I feel like I'm getting somewhere... My latest
error is : Missing or invalid oauth_verifier. Googlin' that led me to
this thread : http://groups.google.com/group/tumblr-api/browse_thread/thread/f80ca4054def1de4

Which makes me think single-user oauth is not possible with the Tumblr
API. Is this correct? Should I be using xAuth instead? If so, any tips
or guides to can point me to about how to do that would be most
appreciated!

Thanks very much!

[felix bonkoski]

You could use xAuth, or you could just jump through the "web auth" flow one time manually, and then save the Oauth client keys you obtain for your account for later use.

[Corinne]

Thanks Felix. I thought about doing the whole web auth flow once just to get the keys. Do you think that makes more sense than xAuth? Or does it not really make a difference? 

[felix schwermut]

I guess it doesn't really matter either way. The only advantage I can think of by not using xAuth is that once you've obtained your client key, you don't have to think about it again.  With xAuth, If your Tumblr account changes passwords, you'd have to remember to go back into your code and change the password sent with xAuth. The OAuth client key would remain constant, however.

felix