new Twitter API - HTTPS always required

Hi,

On the 11th of this month, Twitter stopped some of their old API (like search.twitter.com) but most importantly, all of their API is HTTPS only.

This is a problem for arduino, as there's no ssl support as far as I'm aware (ram issue?). It's a shame, I tried to look everywhere for a arduino only solution but no luck.

The only solution is a proxy server (Arduino ask Server to make quiery Twitter's API). It's not as elegant, I was really enjoying having just an arduino board and no computer.

If anyone has a different solution or thoughts about it, that would be great.

Cheers

founds during my searches incase:
https://code.google.com/p/crypto-arduino-library/

Hi,

I think I've found a quite elegant workaround: there's an existing proxy service called SuperTweet.net that offers Basic Auth over HTTP, and which seems to solve our issues. More here: http://www.supertweet.net/about/api

It's a free non-commercial service and you need not to provide your twitter account's password. Just login and authorize the app, and set a basic password of your choice. Very convenient.

I was able to quickly modify the standard TwitterClient sample to work against this proxy, and now I'm trying to publish a status update through SuperTweet. So far I get an HTTP 500 Internal Error but when I have solved it, I would publish an update and share the piece of code that works.

HTH,
Christophe

Hi Christophe,

That's quite a good find. Thanks for sharing.

@Chr1s any news?