Making crossdomain.xml less restrictive on api.twitter.com?

[orian]

Now that api.twitter.com has gone live, can we please have a less
restrictive crossdomain.xml so that Flash apps can access the API
without requiring the use of a proxy? This was being planned more than
a year and a half ago: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/8d09970f449abc70

[yoni]

Seriously. I'm no Flash developer, but I know more than a few Flash/
Flex developers just dying to get some pretty impressive apps out
there. Right now, they're pretty much hamstrung by this limitation.

> a year and a half ago:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...

[Arpit Mathur]

+1 !
This could really enable some awesome web clients for Twitter.

On Oct 21, 1:31 pm, orian <orianm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> a year and a half ago:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...

[away3D]

Is this planned already? Please do something about this, using a proxy
is a sloppy way of just communicating with the API directly.

-Pete

On Oct 21, 1:31 pm, orian <orianm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> a year and a half ago:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...

[Wez Crozier]

I'm gonna have to bump this fellas! +1 here and I know a dozen other
flash devs in the UK that would like a less restrictive
crossdomain.xml!

Thanks Orian!

Wez

> a year and a half ago:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...

[Folletto]

+1

If that's not possible, it will be interesting an update about the
reasons still blocking the more permissive crossdomain.xml ;)

> a year and a half ago:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...

[Dossy Shiobara]

Bah, who seriously develops applications using Flash, anyway?

:-P

(For those who don't know, Wez and I are friends ...)

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[orian]

Can someone from the API team please comment on this?

> a year and a half ago:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...

[Chad Etzel]

Hello,

After discussing this internally, we have decided that we will make
the crossdomain.xml policy more open on the api.twitter.com domain. We
don't know exactly what that entails yet or when it will go into
effect, but this is something that we want to open up.

Expect another post when we've reached a final conclusion.

-Chad

[Wez Crozier]

Dossy, don't make me come over there and beat you with an Actionscript
book. so help me...

[Dossy Shiobara]

I thought all you click-and-draggers were waiting for Adobe Twitter CS5.

[orian]

Glad to hear it. If you need advice from the Flash community, there
are lots of folks who could help.

[Richard Fairhurst]

Chad Etzel <c...@twitter.com> wrote:
> After discussing this internally, we have decided that we will make

> thecrossdomain.xml policy more open on the api.twitter.com domain. We

> don't know exactly what that entails yet or when it will go into
> effect, but this is something that we want to open up.

Another +1 on this. I'm about to deploy a Flash app giving users the
option to send tweets and which will have to use a proxy for now. I
really don't like doing this as there's always the suspicion that I
could use it to harvest users' names and passwords - though of course
I'm not doing! A permissive crossdomain.xml would be a huge boost.

Richard