Twitter oAuth callbackUrl – localhost development

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.example

where xyz.example 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.

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