Twitter at the end of end support for Basic Auth
am Beijing time on August 31, according to foreign media reports, Twitter employees Douglas Bowman (Douglas Bowman) has said in his Twitter, Twitter on August 31 will terminate the Basic Auth authentication methods supported recommends developers to use OAuth.
OAuth than Basic Auth has several advantages: First, developers need not worry about disclose user information due to procedural flaws.
Second, developers need not worry about the user change the password. Even if the user changes the password, through OAuth users can still use the original program.
Third, do not worry about other programs disguised as normal to cheat, because the only developer I can set the program author's signature.
Fourth, the use of OAuth developers to use more of the Twitter API, because some of the API is only allowed to use OAuth process. (Chang)
