Twitter oAuth callbackUrl - localhost development

Question

Is anyone else having a difficult time getting Twitters oAuth's callback URL to hit their localhost development environment. Apparently it has been disabled recently. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=534#c1

Does anyone have a workaround. I don't really want to stop my development

Answer 1

Yes, it was disabled because of the recent security issue that was found in OAuth. The only solution for now is to create two OAuth applications - one for production and one for development. In the development application you set your localhost callback URL instead of the live one.

Answer 2

Here is the workaround: http://bit.ly/FZWVY

Best of luck!

Answer 3

I just had to do this last week. Apparently localhost doesn't work but 127.0.0.1 does...go figure. This of course assumes that you are registering two apps with Twitter, one for your live www.mysite.com and another for 127.0.0.1

Answer 4

Use http://bit.ly/localhost