Twitter was trying to do away with basic authentication from quite a long time and Twitter’s Douglas Bowman confirms this with a tweet today: “Basic Auth for Twitter is almost history. Rate limits are down to 15 requests/hour, and will be 0 by tomorrow.“
As per the twitter documentation the plan to shutdown basic auth was as follows
- beginning on August 17th, 2010, basic auth rate limits will decrease by 15 requests/hour on each week day;
- on August 19th, 2010 at 5pm PDT, basic auth will be shut off temporarily for 10 minutes;
- on August 23rd, 2010 at 8am PDT, basic auth will be shut off temporarily for 10 minutes;
- on August 26rd, 2010 at 5pm PDT, basic auth will be shut off temporarily for 10 minutes; and
- on August 31st, 2010 at 8am PDT, all basic auth requests will be served with a HTTP 401 error code.
Some time back I had written simple python script to do some nifty little stuff using basic authentication of twitter and as I write this article we are moving closer to end of basic authentication. I will update my status using that script for the last time today.
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