Open Twitter with user logged in - New tab or frame

[richaskew]

Hi All

I want to acheive the following:

A user on our website clicks on a Twitter link and then Twitter opens with the user already logged in. I started out trying to get it to open in an iFrame but abandoned that pretty qucikly. I’m not even sure if it is possible but I need to be 100% certain.

Approaches taken so far

• Twitter oAuth
  I have used the oAuth librarys from Abraham (https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth) and managed to get that working with no problem. I have all the tokens etc. and can post to their account. I was expecting the act of authenticating them to log them into Twitter but I assume this isn’t the case because the Twitter website isn’t setting the cookie?

• cURL
  I have tried to pass the credentials using cURL but nothing is returned. My basic cURL implementation is OK, I can read in the Twitter homepage (not logged in) and display it on our page

Other suggestions

I have had many other suggestions including:

• Embedding a browser into a Java Applet and then embed that (not sure how to pass the variables…)

The question is this, which route would you go down or do you have any better ideas?

[episod]

IFRAME approaches won’t work as you’ve noticed – and any kind of slurping/scraping of content and then showing yourself is also forbidden.

What you’re likely looking for is something like [node:183] which will use the user’s already existing twitter.com session for discreet Twitter-related actions.

[richaskew]

Web intents isn’t quite right. I just wanted to log the user in and then open Twitter for them, is this possible ata all? If not then fair enough I just need to know.

[episod]

Logging into the website itself can only be done by the user themselves, so I think the answer here is no.