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Reputation: 5836

Verifying Twitter OAuth on BlackBerry

Hey all, i want to integrate my Blackberry App with Twitter, and found that the way to do it is with OAuth. The problem I have is that i would like to do the verification of this from my server as to put less strain on the device, but I have no idea how to get the OAuth PIN from the server to be displayed on the device so the user can enter it, any ideas as to how i can do this? or an alternative ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1009

Answers (1)

Buhake Sindi
Buhake Sindi

Reputation: 89169

You can't. OAuth was designed such that only the service provider can provide authentication (so that the developers don't have to store their client passwords on their database servers and if the client changes their passwords, then it would have to be managed also on the developers side too). There is only one source of authentication and that's from the service provider (Twitter, in this case). Sharing of passwords is therefore eliminated.

OAuth doesn't work on PINs but rather using Request/Access Token. Follow the Beginners' Guide to OAuth and Twitter Developer's Auth Page to see how you can incorporate OAuth to Twitter. Just to give you an heads up, you will have to register your application to Twitter.

Update For Mobile and Desktop applications, rather go through Twitter's xAuth. Here's a documentation on how to register and use your application to use xAuth.

Upvotes: 2

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