Twitter oAuth callbackUrl - localhost development

Question

Is anyone else having a difficult time getting Twitters oAuth's callback URL to hit their localhost development environment. Apparently it has been disabled recently. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=534#c1

Does anyone have a workaround. I don't really want to stop my development

Answer 1

Alternative 1.

Set up your .hosts (Windows) or etc/hosts file to point a live domain to your localhost IP. such as:

127.0.0.1 xyz.com

where xyz.com is your real domain.

Alternative 2.

Also, the article gives the tip to alternatively use a URL shortener service. Shorten your local URL and provide the result as callback.

Alternative 3.

Furthermore, it seems that it works to provide for example http://127.0.0.1:8080 as callback to Twitter, instead of http://localhost:8080.