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Is there a way to authenticate to Facebook / Twitter using basic authentication? the application I am working on requires posting to those two sites without the need to open the oAuth Dialog.
No, thank goodness.
Basic authentication requires that you take the user’s password, which is a secret between them and Twitter/Facebook. You shouldn’t be asking for it.
If your app is physically unable to display the dialog, OAuth 2.0 (not available on Twitter) offers a way (last I checked) for an independent web browser on another computer to perform the OAuth authorization process to your app running on some limited device.