cookie based authentication

[Edwin Khodabakchian]

Hello,
Is there any plan in the short term to allow users to authenticate to
the API endpoints using the twitter auth cookie used by the twitter
UI? We are a browser extension and would like to avoid having to ask
and manage the username password. We would prefer leveraging twitters
authentication interface.
Thanks,
Edwin

[Cameron Kaiser]

Wait for OAuth.

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[Alex Payne]

Indeed. Cookie auth isn't the on the table, apologies.

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[till]

Hey,

any idea as of when OAuth will be available again?

Thanks,
Till

On Aug 17, 3:11 pm, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Indeed.  Cookie auth isn't the on the table, apologies.
>

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> wrote:
> (...)
> > Wait forOAuth.

[Alex Payne]

It was never available in the first place. We should be providing it
later this year.

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[till]

On Aug 22, 1:05 pm, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote:
> It was never available in the first place.

It did work at some time.

> We should be providing it
> later this year.

Any idea as of when that will be? ;) September, October, November?

Cheers,
Till

[Alex Payne]

Cookie-based authentication may have worked, but I should say it was
never *supported*. We're trying to put OAuth in place before the end
of the year. I'll try to expose our priority in the near future.

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