Connect to twitter using basic authentication failes or crashes

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add Account TwitterIM in Account Management
2. Give credentials
3. Select and OK

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should add twitter to your accounts,connect and enable pidgin to send tweets

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using 0.3 microblogging
on Pidgin 2.7.9
On Debian Lenny 

Please provide any additional information below.
Either I won't get connected at all or pidgin crashes with following attached 
errors.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bvasund...@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 4:56

Attachments:

• Pidgin-bugreport.txt
• purple-debug.log

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I can confirm the crashing using "basic" authentication...
Can you please try using OAuth authentication?

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 8:30

• Changed state: Accepted

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http://dev.twitter.com/pages/basic_auth_shutdown states that basic 
authentication is no longer an option. You have to use OAuth to connect to 
Twitter.

The crashing remains a problem, though.

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 7:59

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Issue 198 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 8:37

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Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 8:40

• Changed title: Connect to twitter using basic authentication failes or crashes

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works perfectly. 
No bugs ... tried restarting just to make sure its working fine. 
It is working fine.

Original comment by bvasund...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 11:10

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I pinned this down. 
In mb_http_data_set_basicauth password is used.
However password may be null (if not saved in account settings)

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2011 at 8:38

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You are working really hard on it...

I did not save it so that I can track the events.
I got prompt to enter password.

May be its time to remove basic auth because twitter is completely oauth based 
now.

Original comment by bvasund...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2011 at 8:56

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I pushed a quick fix to prevent crashes in r384
I created Issue#239 to prepare for removal of basic authenticaton

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2011 at 10:50

• Changed state: Fixed