Support for xAuth

[hwaxxer]

A simple method to support xAuth. I didn't find any good general purpose xAuth libraries and think this would be a nice add-on to the best OAuth library.

[alexkarpenko]

This doesn't work for Twitter's xAuth since only x_auth_* parameters should be sent in the HTTP POST body. Patch here: midnox@9987bb6

See Twitter's docs for details: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/oauth/xauth

[hwaxxer]

Thanks!

[alexkarpenko]

No problem! Now if only @mattt would hurry up and merge this :)

[jcouture]

I'm sure he will come around and merge this pull request soon enough. He speaks at MMConf (http://www.mmconf.com/), so he might have other things on his mind. 😄

[alexkarpenko]

Oh, I'm sure he will. Between all the projects, conferences, and NSHipster, how does he even find time to sleep?! 😄

[mattt]

Aww, you guys... 😁

It's been a while, but what is xAuth's relationship to OAuth, exactly? AFXAuthClient is a thing. Is there anything this patch accomplishes that this library doesn't? Is this the right functionality to add to an OAuth library?

Just curious, is all.

[hwaxxer]

xAuth still needs OAuth signed requests which is why it leverages the functionality of AFOAuth1Client. But I do understand your concern. I could create a separate library, letting AFXAuthClient be a subclass of AFOAuth1Client. I think it'd be a nice edition to the AFNetworking suite as the xAuth paradigm seems to be growing in popularity (for better or worse).