microblog plasmoid and oauth

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Ryan P. Bitanga wrote:
> Just to clarify what this means: the OAuth implementation at Twitter
> allows several methods of authentication as detailed here:
> http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth_overview
> 
> Some clients such as qTwitter use the out-of-band method which would
> require us to add new strings for the PIN code as well as require a
> browser to be launched. The best method for us to use is the xAuth
> method since it allows us to retain the current UI while making all
> the changes in the dataengine. However, xAuth access isn't granted by
> default.
> 
> I already obtained permission from Twitter to use xAuth and have had
> authentication working since last Thursday. Next up is signing
> requests (for posting tweets, etc.) which I'll finish within the week.

just a quich reminder for this:
can this go in shortly?
it has also been reported to bz, as
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242048

> Ryan
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Ryan P. Bitanga <ryan.bitanga at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > In progress. I have it working already. :) Cleaning up the patch by the
> > end of the week. We have xAuth support from Twitter so we don't need to
> > introduce any new strings.
> > 
> > Ryan
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> >> erf ...
> >> 
> >> just read:
> >> 
> >>        http://momeny.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/kde-oauth/
> >> 
> >> and it looks like we'll need to port the microblogging plasmoid as well,
> >> and this really ought to be done before the 4.5.0 release (!). anyone
> >> feel like giving it a go?
> >> 
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Marco Martin