Eric Fickes

UPDATE 5.28 : As you probably guessed I’ve been slacking on this, but I’d like to think of it more of just being temporarily roadblocked.  I did a little work on the HTML client and added the nice character count and everything, but can’t seem to figure out how to send the Basic Authentication header via Javascript.  I tapped into the XmlHttpRequest as well as a JQuery lib, but just couldn’t get it going.  As of now my html twitter client does tweet, but you’ll get the login prompt from twitter.com.  This is not good IMO which is why I haven’t posted anything yet.  I’ve since changed my focus to my AIR Yammer client, and probably adding Twitter support to that.  For anybody interested, here’s my latest HTML twitter client in case you’d like to fix it up, or even use it for that matter.  If you can make this work, please drop me a note, I’d love to see how you did it.

Having a hard time getting the Basic Authentication header working in JS

UPDATE : When I was first messing with this little form, I didn’t realize I had already authenticated with Twitter and thought the hidden fields were in fact doing their jobs by passing the username and password.  Turns out that’s not the case.  When you submit this form, the status will be sent, but you will be presented with a username and password dialog from Twitter.  After logging, your status will be sent.  I know have a goal of figuring out how to make this simple HTML form work with Twitter.  Got a feeling I’ll have to do some javascript magic with OAuth.  Once I figure this out, this post will be updated with the latest html.

@ericfickes

Here’s an easy way to update your Twitter status using a simple HTML form.  Be sure to replace { TWITTER USERNAME }and{ TWITTER PASSWORD } with your information prior to using this form.


<form action="http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml" method="POST" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">

<!-- set your Twitter username and password here -->
<input type="hidden" name="user" value="{ TWITTER USERNAME }" />
<input type="hidden" name="pswd" value="{ TWITTER PASSWORD }" />

status <input type="text" name="status" maxlength="140" />
<input type="submit" value=" tweet! " />
</form>