Missing oauth_verify

[Igor Clark]

Hi there

My OAuth client is failing at the "request access token" stage,
apparently because I'm not providing an oauth_verifier:

{{"HTTP/1.1",400,"Bad Request"}
[{"connection","close"},
{"date","Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:44:11 GMT"},
{"server","Apache"},
{"vary","Accept-Encoding"},
{"content-length","34"},
{"content-type","text/html; charset=UTF-8"},
{"p3p","CP=\"ALL ADM DEV PSAi COM OUR OTRo STP IND ONL\""},
{"x-tumblr-usec","D=22003"}]
"Missing or invalid oauth_verifier."}

As I understand it, that's because I'm not following the web-page flow
to get the OAuth verifier token. Is that right?

If so, the thing is, I'm trying to do this all unmanned on the back-
end, so I can't follow that flow.

As an example of how I'd do this elsewhere, Twitter provide access
tokens and access token secrets per-app, directly in their dev site,
so that developers can create valid OAuth signatures without having to
jump through web flow hoops.

Am I missing this somewhere in the Tumblr API site or documentation?
If so, how do I get my access token/secret to use in this way? If not,
is there any plan to support this kind of use? Seems unlikely that I'm
the first person to want to do that :-)

Cheers,
Igor Clark


(PS I only discovered this group after mailing support at tumblr dot
com, sorry about that)

[Steven Pears]

If you want truly unmanned, you're probably better off requesting xauth for your app - then you can automate the whole process

Steven

Sent from my Windows Phone

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From: Igor Clark
Sent: 20/01/2012 22:21
To: Tumblr API Discussion
Subject: Missing oauth_verify

[Igor Clark]

Thanks Steven, looks like I might have to do that.

Anyone at Tumblr able to confirm there are no plans to add this?

cheers,
Igor