Silverlight Twitter Client with authentication

Posted by: Hannes Preishuber, on 30 Jul 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Its not easy to access a cross domain RSS feed. But it is nearly impossible to do same with authentication. HTTP Client stack and HTTP browser stack in Silverlight 3 and beyond does not support authentication. All tricks with manipulating HTTP header throw some not implemented exception. For my workaround I use a browser bridge built with Jscript. First i created a twitter account and closed the RSS feed to followers. Which have the effect that when accessing the RSS with browser Login Dialog is...

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