lib/twitter/client/auth.rb

   1 class Twitter::Client
   2   @@AUTHENTICATION_URIS = {
   3     :verify => '/account/verify_credentials',
   4   }
   5
   6         # Provides access to the Twitter verify credentials API.
   7         #
   8         # You can verify Twitter user credentials with minimal overhead using this method.
   9   #
  10         # Example:
  11         #  client.authenticate?("osxisforlightweights", "l30p@rd_s^cks!")
  12         def authenticate?(login, password)
  13     verify_credentials(login, password)
  14         end
  15
  16 private
  17   def verify_credentials(username, passwd)
  18         connection = create_http_connection
  19         connection.start do |connection|
  20           request = create_http_get_request("#{@@AUTHENTICATION_URIS[:verify]}.json")
  21                 request.basic_auth(username, passwd)
  22                 response = connection.request(request)
  23                 response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess) ? true : false
  24     end
  25   end
  26 end
  27