Twitter App not taking localhost and 127.0.0.1 as CallbackUrl

Question

I am developing an Application on my localhost environment. Where I want to implement Twitter OAuth functionality in PHP. So I just went on dev.twitter.com and was trying to create an app but its not allowing me to pass Callback URL as localhost or 127.0.0.1.

1) Firstly I tried as localhost

2) Then I tried as localhost/demoproject

3) After I tried IP with project name

But its taking it as a invalid callback/url format.

Is there any way to deal with this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Former Twitter Employee's Answer - see @episod's post

It turns out that adding a localhost address is not what you should be doing for development anyhow. In the OAuth handshake, your app should provide a callback URL which will override the configured URL on the config page.

The solution is to simply add any URL there as a placeholder.

Answer 2

For localhost, use the following URLs in your dev.twitter.com application setup:

Website URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/twitter/oauth
Callback URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/twitter/oauth

And don’t worry, these are just placeholders, as long as your code sends the correct callback URL when it connects, things ought to work...

Answer 3

You can provide a Valid URL only for developing Twitter app. Local testing it should be http://127.0.0.1/folder_name.

If both are not working, Hope this topic will help you.