Ping.fm~TWiT Army Bridge

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Notice: Ping.fm now offers native Laconica support.

Contents 1 Description 2 Self Hosting 3 Managed Hosting 4 Updates 5 Support

Description

The Ping.fm~TWiT Army Bridge will allow you to post to the TWiT Army using the Ping.fm Custom URL feature until they offer generic Laconica support. This bridge is needed because Ping.fm Custom URL doesn’t support passing authentication.

Self Hosting

You want want to host the bridge on your own server.

1. Edit your username and password to TWiT Army in the script.
2. Upload to a host that supports PHP and cURL (Most already do).
3. Rename the file to something secret because the script doesn’t do any authentication.
4. Point the Custom URL to the address for the script.
5. Enjoy Ping.fm integration to the TWiT Army.
6. You may also want to change the source variable in line 22 of the script.
   • &source=YOUR CUSTOM SOURCE

Download

Managed Hosting

Use the bridge hosting on this server.

1. Add the Custom URL in this format:
   • http://www.bashtech.net/twit/post.php?u=USERNAME&p=PASSWORD
2. Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with the appropriate values.

NOTE: If your username/password contains any symbols it would be wise to encode them first

Updates

[??-??] TWiT Army API end point has changed to http://army.twit.tv/api.

[10-9] Added support for usernames and passwords with symbols.

[10-12] Fixed an encoding issue with posts that contain symbols.

[12-28] Moved to wiki.

[2-3] Ping.fm now offers native Laconica support.

Support

If you have any questions question, please send me an email or message @bgeorge on the Army. (Although email will be faster)