Amr Mostafa: The new Jaiku API: Problems and solutions

Almost all applications, modules and social web sites I use stopped working with Jaiku since they moved to AppEngine and introduced a new API based on OAuth for authorization and secure communication of REST requests.

While I was working on updating my favorite desktop micro blogging application, gwibber, to the new API I became aware of 3 important undocumented issues. Fortunately, Jaiku had gone open source which helped me big deal in working with/around these issues.

1. You have to use the "www." subdomain
Meaning your OAuth URLs should begin with "http://www.jaiku.com" not "http://jaiku.com".read more