https://hashbang.ca/tag/mmims Recent content in Mmims on Hashbang.ca Hugo en-us Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:04:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/distzillaplugintwitter-gets-an-oauth-update Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:04:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/distzillaplugintwitter-gets-an-oauth-update/ <p>My pluginbundle for <a href="http://dzil.org"><code>Dist::Zilla</code></a> includes, among other things, the Twitter plugin so I can brag on Twitter every time I release a module. Mysteriously, it <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75995">broke</a> one day. Looking at the code, I realized that it was sending my username and password to authenticate. I remember being uneasy with that at the time I set it up, but I quickly forgot, and continued along blithely. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth">OAuth</a> is an authorization standard that allows users to avoid giving their username &amp; password to a potentially-untrusted application. Using OAuth has been requested <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72918">since 2011</a>, and the <code>401 Unauthorized</code> error I got indicates that now it is mandatory for Twitter.</p> <p>David Golden offered to let me maintain the module, and I&rsquo;m a sucker, so&hellip; :D</p>