#8 Basic Authentication disabled

[Chris Young]

Twitter no longer supports basic authentication, which AmiTwitter relies on.

Error messages in console output:
api_uri: http://twitter.com/statuses/home_timeline.xml?since_id=1
error respose code: 401
timeline num: 0

"Test" under settings gives the more descriptive:
error respose code: 401
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
<request>/account/verify_credentials.xml</request>
<error>Basic authentication has been disabled</error>
</hash>

[Chris Young]

Possibly helpful:
http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk/download.php?file=liboauth

[neongod]

There is a "workaround" for that. Use SuperTweet API:
"The SuperTweet.net API is a simple way for your non-OAuth enabled tweeting scripts and simple apps to keep working after Twitter shuts of Basic Auth in June 2010. Simply sign in at http://www.supertweet.net and activate API credentials that you can use in your scripts then change your Basic Auth scripts to point to http://api.supertweet.net instead of http://twitter.com"

Other workaround can be to use the fully Twitter compatible, open source microblog Identi.ca 's API. It also supports Basic Auth and the user can let the service automatically post the messages to Twitter and Facebook too.

[Cammy]

I'm just wondering if anyone was going to look into this still? It's been over a year and we still can't log in with AmiTwitter anymore. It's a great program and such a waste to not be able to use it because of a stupid server error.