Authentication woes, newby

[ossreleasefeed]

Hi there everyone,

I am playing around with the Twitter4R lib and have got everything set-
up successfully and the calls to Twitter are succeeding but I have a
strange issue I hope someone can help me with.

First a question, does the client.authenticate? method call actually
log in a user or merely check whether the user exists on Twitter and
that the credentials match?

Now for the problem, when I use:

client = Twitter::Client.new(:login => 'username', :password =>
'password')

and the use:

client.my(:info)

I always get some default user returned no matter which
username:password combinations I use.

{:_csrf_token=>"9KXpODjHvl93MmGifjBFRJbIOVZn9dlIRYOor6szDdo=", :session_id=>"b01c39b91acb525cee70992f081786fe", :user=>#<Twitter::User:
0x52484ac @profile_text_color="000000", @statuses_count=0,
@notifications=false, @location=nil,
@profile_sidebar_border_color="87bc44",
@profile_background_color="9ae4e8", @friends_count=0, @utc_offset=nil,
@following=false, @profile_sidebar_fill_color="e0ff92", @name="Jose
Italo", @time_zone=nil, @followers_count=12,
@profile_image_url="http://s.twimg.com/a/1255715644/images/
default_profile_6_normal.png", @client=#<Twitter::Client:0x524809c
@login="openworlddb", @password="XXXX">,
@profile_background_tile=false, @url=nil, @id=82946051,
@description=nil, @profile_link_color="0000ff", @favourites_count=0,
@protected=false, @screen_name="show", @created_at="Fri Oct 16
18:51:43 +0000 2009", @profile_background_image_url="http://
s.twimg.com/a/1255715644/images/themes/theme1/bg.png">}

Any ideas? What am I missing here?

Thanks!
Schalk

[SP]

Hi Schalk,

> First a question, does the client.authenticate? method call actually
> log in a user or merely check whether the user exists on Twitter and
> that the credentials match?

Twitter::Client#authenticate?(user, pass) only verifies the
credentials passed in. It doesn't not create a persistent
authenticated connection.

> Now for the problem, when I use:
> client = Twitter::Client.new(:login => 'username', :password =>
> 'password')
> and the use:
> client.my(:info)
> I always get some default user returned no matter which
> username:password combinations I use.

> Any ideas? What am I missing here?

Could you let me know which version of Twitter4R you are using?

In Twitter4R v0.3.2 (the latest gem available from gemcutter.org) I
did the following:

params = {:login => "mylogin", :password => "mypassword"}
client = Twitter::Client.new(params)
client.authenticate?(params[:login], params[:password])
=> true
client.my(:info)
=> #<Twitter::User:0x28d4490 @friends_count=110,
@profile_link_color="FF0000", ..., @screen_name="SusanPotter",
@profile_background_tile=false>

Can you make sure authenticate? returns true with your credentials and
then let me know the version of the Twitter4R gem you are using.

Thanks,
Susan