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>