Potlatch vs Twitter

[Richard Fairhurst]

Hi all,

Twitter-using OSMers can now (as of Potlatch 1.2e) tweet their edits.

If you punch your Twitter ID and password into Potlatch's options
screen[1], you'll have the option for your comments to be posted to your
Twitter account whenever you save a changeset.

The tweet includes an OSM shortlink, so others can see your location;
and the #osmedit tag, because I didn't think those who look at #osm
would appreciate being overwhelmed by a bunch of edits.

Knock yourselves out. :)

cheers
Richard


[1] Privacy stuff: Your ID and password are remembered on your local
machine as a cookie (well, Flash's Local Storage), and not saved on
osm.org. Twitter currently prevent Flash clients from connecting
directly, though have said they're going to relax this. Until then, the
posting needs to go via a proxy script on dev.openstreetmap.org. TomH
has looked at this and is happy, I trust, that it's not doing anything
evil like harvesting passwords.

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[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Twitter-using OSMers can now (as of Potlatch 1.2e) tweet their edits.

Great, I'll quickly fire up my planet2twitter script to give twitter
readers the necessary background ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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[Lukasz Stelmach-4]

Richard Fairhurst pisze:
> Hi Lukasz,
>
>> How about using Twitter's OAuth feature?

> I'm hoping to use OAuth with Potlatch 2,

> There's no OAuth library for ActionScript 1 (in which Potlatch is
> currently written), and you are of course right in that something could
> be rigged up using a proxy on dev.osm.org, but it'd be quite complex and
> really this is just a bit of fun.

I understand, on the other hand, twitting code available to other server
based parts of OSM could be usefull.

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[Iván Sánchez Ortega-3]

El Lunes, 9 de Noviembre de 2009, Richard Fairhurst escribió:
> H[...] TomH has looked at this and is happy, I trust, that it's not doing
> anything evil like harvesting passwords.

I cannot believe evil FakeSteveC is not involved in this :-P


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[Michal Migurski-3]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 2:13 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> [1] Privacy stuff: Your ID and password are remembered on your local
> machine as a cookie (well, Flash's Local Storage), and not saved on
> osm.org. Twitter currently prevent Flash clients from connecting
> directly, though have said they're going to relax this. Until then,  
> the
> posting needs to go via a proxy script on dev.openstreetmap.org. TomH
> has looked at this and is happy, I trust, that it's not doing anything
> evil like harvesting passwords.

Why not use OAuth? (please use OAuth ;)

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[Richard Fairhurst]

Michal Migurski wrote:
> Why not use OAuth? (please use OAuth ;)

Potlatch 2 will (in fact Potlatch 2 already does!), because there's an OAuth library for AS3. There isn't one for AS1 and developing one for what's just a bit of fun would be overkill - better to spend the time on Potlatch 2 itself.

cheers
Richard

[Michal Migurski-3]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> Michal Migurski wrote:
>> Why not use OAuth? (please use OAuth ;)
>
> Potlatch 2 will (in fact Potlatch 2 already does!), because there's  
> an OAuth
> library for AS3. There isn't one for AS1 and developing one for  
> what's just
> a bit of fun would be overkill - better to spend the time on  
> Potlatch 2
> itself.

You could perhaps hide the complexity of the OAuth bits behind the  
proxy script and use the three-legged option. It's a bit of extra or  
maybe just different work, but the problem OAuth seeks to address  
(stopping sites from asking you for passwords they shouldn't know) is  
very real here. Also I'm not in any way trying to diminish this  
awesome feature in a fast-moving software project, just wanted to make  
sure the safest option was being pursued! =)

-mike.

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[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard@...> wrote:
>
> Michal Migurski wrote:
>> Why not use OAuth? (please use OAuth ;)
>
> Potlatch 2 will (in fact Potlatch 2 already does!), because there's an OAuth
> library for AS3. There isn't one for AS1 and developing one for what's just
> a bit of fun would be overkill - better to spend the time on Potlatch 2
> itself.

If we're talking about the Potlatch Twitter feature as opposed to
OAuth for Potlatch itself presumably this could be done in Perl in the
potlatchtweet.cgi script: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=oauth

By the way where is potlatchtweet.cgi in SVN? I can't find it. And if
it's not there could you please add it?

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[Richard Fairhurst]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> If we're talking about the Potlatch Twitter feature as opposed to
> OAuth for Potlatch itself presumably this could be done in Perl in the
> potlatchtweet.cgi script: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=oauth

It could indeed. It's not a priority for me as my time is better spent  
on Potlatch 2, but if someone else were to implement that, it'd be  
great.

> By the way where is potlatchtweet.cgi in SVN? I can't find it. And if
> it's not there could you please add it?

Will add it this evening.

cheers
Richard


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