From: Johannes Faigle Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:16:39 +0000 (+0800) Subject: added information about twitters discontinued basic auth support to docs X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e847e49b485800b2f45b4be7ca83a8d5de5e677;p=tweepy.git added information about twitters discontinued basic auth support to docs --- diff --git a/doc/auth_tutorial.rst b/doc/auth_tutorial.rst index 42a0f73..68075cb 100644 --- a/doc/auth_tutorial.rst +++ b/doc/auth_tutorial.rst @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ provided: Basic Authentication ==================== +Twitter has disabled basic authentication on August 16th 2010 - use OAuth +authentication instead. + Basic authentication uses the user's Twitter username and password for authenticating with the API. You must query the user for these two pieces of information before we can authenticate.