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mikeage / prpltwtr

libpurple plugin to add support for the twitter / status.net protocol
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Under Add Account>protocol there are two twiter items!?? #15

Closed FourthDr closed 10 years ago

FourthDr commented 10 years ago

After successfully building and installing the twitter plugin under Debian, I now have two twitter choices under add account>protocol. This is unexpected. Isn't there only suppose to be one choice? I can choose from the following two:

Status.net (twitter protocol) twitter protocol

Is this the way it is suppose to be? Or has something gone horribly wrong? I was only expecting a single choice. Which one do I select when adding an account? And why are there two items instead of one? Please explain? Or have I found a bug/error?

mikeage commented 10 years ago

That's correct. Use the regular twitter one. Status.net is another site (backend, really) using a similar API. On Oct 12, 2014 12:32 PM, "FourthDr" notifications@github.com wrote:

After successfully building and installing the twitter plugin under Debian, I now have two twitter choices under add account>protocol. This is unexpected. Isn't there only suppose to be one choice? I can choose from the following two:

Status.net (twitter protocol) twitter protocol

Is this the way it is suppose to be? Or have something gone horribly wrong? I was only expecting a single choice. Which one do I select when adding an account? And why are there two items instead of one? Please explain? Or have I found a bug/error?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/mikeage/prpltwtr/issues/15.

FourthDr commented 10 years ago

In what situation would you use status net for? First I have hear of it.

mikeage commented 10 years ago

If you have friends there. The truth is that I no longer use it, but at the time, it was just a few minutes work, because they based their API on the twitter API. On Oct 12, 2014 6:31 PM, "FourthDr" notifications@github.com wrote:

In what situation would you use status net for? First I have hear of it.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/mikeage/prpltwtr/issues/15#issuecomment-58804939.

FourthDr commented 10 years ago

Might want to put that in the plugin description. Might be a selling point for some people who use that site.

mikeage commented 10 years ago

OTOH, it's reported to be broken of late, but since I no longer use it, I don't know (or care all that much, to be honest). Yes, it'd "sell" better to remove it, but maybe another developer might want to fix it....

FourthDr commented 10 years ago

Now I have an oauth problem. When I enable twitter and try to add an account, the system default browser opens an http address instead of an https which is required by twitter. So I have to manually change the URL to make it https. I think this is a problem with your code when generating the oauth URL. The rest of the URL is correct.

Also, on my raspberry pi I only have two lightweight browsers available Midori and Dillo. Midori does not support https, and I can't logon to Twitter using Dillo. I can't run Firefox on the raspberry pi, not enough computing power. Have an alternate lightweight browser that will work that you can recommend?

The plugin works file on a desktop with Xubuntu 14.04 LTS + Firefox. With the exception of the http URL being generated by the plugin instead of the required https.

Next I will try building the windows version of the plugin...... ;-)

mikeage commented 10 years ago

Good find. I see Twitter changed this a while back, but as I don't reauthorize very often, I never noticed. I'll push a fix tomorrow when I'm back on my PC.

Personally, I use Windows for my desktop machines, so I can't offer any thoughts about Linux browsers. On Oct 12, 2014 11:44 PM, "FourthDr" notifications@github.com wrote:

Now I have an oauth problem. When I enable twitter and try to add an account, the system default browser opens an http address instead of an https which is required by twitter. So I have to manually change the URL to make it https. I think this is a problem with your code when generating the oauth URL. The rest of the URL is correct.

Also, on my raspberry pi I only have two lightweight browsers available Midori and Dillo. Midori does not support https, and I can't logon to Twitter using Dillo. I can't run Firefox on the raspberry pi, not enough computing power. Have an alternate lightweight browser that will work that you can recommend?

The plugin works file on a desktop with Xubuntu 14.04 LTS + Firefox. With the exception of the http URL being generated by the plugin instead of the required https.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/mikeage/prpltwtr/issues/15#issuecomment-58821759.

mikeage commented 10 years ago

Fixed in edcfe82d9a9a13cca3b834f0454ef27eb20b50f7