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!gnusocial Does anyone know if there's a way to register applications/clients in GNUsocial instances without having to manually do it? What would be the best approach to make a client that supports pretty much every GNUsocial instance?
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@alexivanov OAuth like MustardMod etc. use it just requires the user to sign in to receive a token (via callback). Your [web|desktop] application uses that as a revocable login token for that user.
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@alexivanov Basic Auth == HTTP authentication. That's entirely unrelated. But look at how clients like MustardMod use OAuth to authenticate. That's perfectly usable without registering the client as an "app" (more than by logging in, which you have to do anyway of course). There are tons of clients out there that use OAuth without the need to register the app with the …
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