I totally agree with Pelle

I will stick with the standards, I dont want to build custom interfaces for each service provider, the original purpose would be defeated by it.

I remember XML-RPC being so simple and elegant. Vendors and committees have screwed SOAP, made it so complex no one person can either explain it all or code it all.

I am building a oauth provider and a set of consumer apps.

I could refer to the standards, sample implementations in various languages and then write my own implementation in a couple of days.

So here's a question: why not have a background process that keeps asking Y! every 57 minutes?

what if tomorrow Y! changes it to 30 minutes, your app would be broken, your users experience would be affected, without you knowing the cause.

also if we allow Y! to get away with it, others would do the same, weakening and undermining the cause for which OAuth is a solution