Non-OAuth Support in Microblogging Plasmoid

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Tue Jan 29 12:53:53 UTC 2013


On Monday, January 28, 2013 23:10:54 David Narvaez wrote:
> As you'll see in the logs, I've been giving some maintenance to the
> Microblogging plasmoid. As I was reviewing open bug reports I stumbled upon
> bug 304704. The users expecto be able to use the microblogging plasmoid to
> log into any StatusNet instance, but we are only supporting OAuth right
> now, so it means we have to set up keys for the services we support
> (currently the two most common). Is this intended and we should close the
> bug as invalid? Or should we support both OAuth and the regular
> authentication mechanism?

Basic authentication can be added, but the microblog dataengine does assume 
it's either statusnet or twitter, no "random 3rd party", so even if added, it 
might need more changes. It *might* work, but I've not tested that at all.

Cheers,
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sebas

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