592969 - oAuth support to retrieve Twitter friends timeline RSS feeds

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Manuel Lemos]

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Twitter just disabled permanently basic authentication support to retrieve private RSS friends such as the friends timeline.

Now they only support oauth but Thunderbird does not support that type of authentication.

Please add oauth support so we can get back reading friends timeline using Thunderbird RSS feed support.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

From the twitter announce :
 Attention!  August 31, 2010  Basic Auth has been deprecated. All applications must now use OAuth.

Don't fret! @twitterapi is here to help! Feel free to reach out to us directly, or via our Twitter Development Talk group.

The switch to OAuth is a good thing! You, as the application developer,

    don't have the burden of keeping potentially damaging credentials for your users (especially considering that a lot of people use the same password for multiple services);
    don't have to worry about the user changing their password — a user can change his or her password and the OAuth "connection" to your app will still work;
    don't have to worry about other applications masquerading as your application as only your application can set the byline with your application name;
    will eventually have access to more trusted APIs from Twitter that will only be available to "trusted" OAuth-enabled applications; and
    will be contributing to the web of trust between users, service providers, and applications.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

There is some support for oAuth https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/FxSync/Archived/OAuth , but I'm not sure that there is a oAuth add-on per se.

Shane is there a standalone oAuth extension somewhere ?

Comment 3

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> There is some support for oAuth
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/FxSync/Archived/OAuth , but I'm not sure
> that there is a oAuth add-on per se.
> 
> Shane is there a standalone oAuth extension somewhere ?

There is, it's called oauthorizer:

https://bitbucket.org/mixedpuppy/oauthorizer/

Right now the oauth branch of the Contacts addon uses it.

Comment 4

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

This is a somewhat interesting argument to take oauthorizer into core Thunderbird, longer-term, as well as just for general platformy goodness.  I wish we had more data on how many people use Twitter feeds in Tb.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

I use Snowl, so maybe I'm biased, but I think this would be a good thing to take into core.

Comment 6

[alta88]

this is a good thing, so good there are 3 implementations in mail now ;)

/mail/base/modules/oauth.jsm
/calendar/base/modules/OAuth2.jsm
/chat/protocols/twitter/twitter.js

unfortunately twitter has deprecated rss/atom/xml content in favor of an api, so this isn't valid as a feed item anymore.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview#New_Twitter_client_policies