I totally agree with you and so I'll put a shameless plug here: I've created OAuth Hopper[0] exactly for this reason. It essentially takes a resource behind OA

I totally agree with you and so I'll put a shameless plug here: I've created OAuth Hopper[0] exactly for this reason. It essentially takes a resource behind OAuth, strips OAuth from it and exposes it with Basic Access Authentication. I'm using it to let clients that don't support OAuth access services that force it. [0] https://github.com/bjesus/oauth-hopper/ https://github.com/bjesus/oauth-hopper/