polling jdrop before the drop

[Gary D]

I have been looking at Dan's CSSess and something that comes to mind
is that it would be helpful to be helpful to show the drop to jdrop
button as disabled until it becomes a valid option. I am wondering if
there is a way that an app could know in advance if the drop would be
allowed or not without doing an actual drop. There is some work
involved in running an app such as CSSess and if you can't store the
results the time seems wasted/frustrating. So knowing in advance that
there is an issue would help, knowing that storing is not currently an
option would be good. It reminds me of the days when you checked into
a hotel or rented a car, they sent through a zero dollar charge, It
never appeared on your bill, but if the merchant got back declined,
they knew that when you checked out a few days later, your card would
very likely be declined. If the pre-auth was approved the merchant
knew that at time of checkout, the guest would likely be approved for
at least a few hundred dollars. Nothing to say that things can't
change between the time of the pre-check and the drop, but most of the
time they would not.

Which leads me to the source of this suggestion. I am currently
logged into jdrop, I have it open in a browser tab and it tells me so.
In an adjacent browser tab, I have a web page running CSSess. When I
click the jdrop button, a message comes back telling me that I am not
logged into jdrop, to go log in, comeback and attempt the drop again.
I am perplexed, Mostly because I don't understand oauth and the flow
of information between all of the parties involved. I know that it is
possible for a person to have many accounts with both twitter an
google. I know that google gets very confused if you try to log in to
one google service with one account and a different google service
with a different account. I am wondering if jdrop faces similar
issues. I only have one jdrop account and it is only associated with
one oauth provider, but I still don't get how, when I click the jdrop
button on cssess, it knows where to drop my json. Since I don't know,
it is not a surprise that jdrop does not know either. It's like jdrop
thinks I am user #2 when I am logged in as user #1.

Any direction would be most appreciated. I am sure that I have not
provided enough detail for you to know what is happening, but I am not
sure what I am supposed to be looking for. The twitter account that I
am using is monona_us,

[Steve Souders]

Please submit a bug here steps to reproduce the problem:
        http://code.google.com/p/jdrop/issues/list

-Steve