On Aug 6, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> 1. There is _no_ native oauth support in curl/libcurl right now.

I was surprised by the post; excited if it were true, but wondering where curl draws the line in what it supports. Aren't there plenty of oauth libraries out there already? I know there are perl, php, bash, and a number of other mainstream interfaces to oauth on the twitter wiki.

> 2. There is _no_ ongoing work on implementing oauth other than what has been
> mentioned on the libcurl mailing list a few months ago and since nothing
> has been heard about it since I suspect there hasn't been a lot of
> progress.

Do you have a link to that discussions archive? My google searches are coming up short.

> 3. Anyone is free to step forward and write the necessary code. I personally
> have not reached that far down my TODO-list to get into that, and I don't
> expect it to happen in a while either.

So it is a possibility? It seems too narrow a feature to be part of curl. I would have assumed rejection of said feature for deviating into a highly specific function set that is only useful to a small subset of users.

Or is oauth the modern day http auth and something that indeed should be part of any any tool that pushes and pulls resources.

Thanks.

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