Issue 75 - twitter-api - source property comes as html anchor

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Issue 75:	source property comes as html anchor
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Status:	Invalid
Owner:	m...@twitter.com
Type-Defect
Priority-Medium
Milestone-V2

Reported by ed.voas, Aug 30, 2008

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. curl -u <creds> http://twitter.com/friends_timeline.xml when you have
friends who use things like twitteriffic, twirl, etc.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd actually expect a source name and a source URL. Instead, the feed gives
me an HTML anchor. This means I have to parse it out to just get the text
of the anchor if I'm not using HTML (I'm writing an iPhone client). And for
whatever reason, the damned libxml is reporting errors through the
NSXMLParser layer if I'm trying to parse the value of that field while
parsing. It makes me hate life.

Comment 1 by ed.voas, Aug 31, 2008

Another thing that is stopping me from parsing this (I'm trying another way to deal
with this) is that for text sources, the URL has an unescaped ampersand. libxml
doesn't seem to want to parse that (and rightly so). Not sure if this should be a
separate bug.

Comment 2 by m...@twitter.com, Nov 14, 2008

There was an effort to correct all escaping and encoding issues about six weeks ago and I have not seen any 
unescaped XML entities since that. As for the HTML anchor, We'll review the format for the next version of the 
API but there are no plans to change it in the current version.

Are you still seeing any issue with unescaped entities in sources?

Status: Accepted
Cc: m...@twitter.com

Comment 3 by m...@twitter.com, Nov 14, 2008

(No comment was entered for this change.)

Owner: m...@twitter.com
Cc: -m...@twitter.com

Comment 4 by alexfpayne, Dec 02, 2008

This will slip to the next version of the API.

Labels: Milestone-V2

Comment 5 by igudo1, Apr 21, 2009

This issue has been recoreded in the future roadmap:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap

Status: Moved

Comment 6 by alexfpayne, Apr 21, 2009

Marking "Invalid" so these issues don't clutter the main view of issues. All are tracked on http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap

Status: Invalid