Twitter App not taking localhost and 127.0.0.1 as CallbackUrl

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J.K.A. picture J.K.A. · Jan 17, 2013 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I am developing an Application on my localhost environment. Where I want to implement Twitter OAuth functionality in PHP. So I just went on dev.twitter.com and was trying to create an app but its not allowing me to pass Callback URL as localhost or 127.0.0.1.

1) Firstly I tried as localhost

Callback URL as localhost

2) Then I tried as localhost/demoproject

Callback URL as localhost with projectname

3) After I tried IP with project name

Callback URL as IPAddress with projectname

But its taking it as a invalid callback/url format.

Error

Is there any way to deal with this?

Thanks

Answer

Boriana Ditcheva picture Boriana Ditcheva · Apr 22, 2013

For localhost, use the following URLs in your dev.twitter.com application setup:

Website URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/twitter/oauth
Callback URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/twitter/oauth

And don’t worry, these are just placeholders, as long as your code sends the correct callback URL when it connects, things ought to work...

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