Index of /twitter

	Name	Last modified	Size	Description
	Parent Directory		-
	Makefile	22-Jan-2012 16:13	2.7K
	README.htaccess	23-Jan-2012 00:55	662
	README.html	03-Jan-2012 00:25	1.7K
	ads.html	17-Jan-2012 01:57	286
	apache.conf	22-Jan-2012 22:22	852
	certlogin/	22-Jan-2012 21:32	-
	dynamicdrive_3_columns.css	17-Jan-2012 16:34	1.2K
	images/	29-Nov-2011 02:52	-
	job.txt	22-Nov-2011 02:10	152
	pytest.py	04-Jan-2012 23:47	5.1K
	test.cgi	13-Jan-2012 02:20	56
	todo.txt	19-Jan-2012 03:41	144
	twitter_oauth.cgi	21-Jan-2012 00:42	19K
	twitter_oauth.py	21-Jan-2012 00:42	19K

This is a simple example of using "straight" (no external libraries) Python to implement Twitter's OAuth signin. Once you've set up the .netrc file for www-data (see Makefile), make webtest might work for you, at least on Debian.

Example recipes check and check2 in Makefile are from https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/implementing-sign-twitter.

Some things that may not be obvious: README.htaccess is simply a symlink to the otherwise-invisible .htaccess file; and twitter_oauth.py must be symlinked to index.cgi in order to function by default. I have it disabled here so the directory contents may be viewed.

Found out that Google Chrome cannot be relied upon to use the same port number for successive requests. Will need to use cookies instead to maintain state, unless I can come up with another reliable method. (Update 2012-01-02: considering that this was a bad idea anyway. Suppose a malicious entity controls a public AP, and can control the NAT mapping of port numbers.)

This script stores user data in $HOME/members/. If you've set www-data's home directory in /etc/apache2/, or somewhere else out of the document root, you may need to, as root:

 mkdir /etc/apache2/members
 chown www-data.www-data /etc/apache2/members
 chmod 700 /etc/apache2/members
 

pytest is a python-fuse filesystem for testing functions in a Python script, eliminating the need to symlink the script multiple times for each function one wishes to test.