[Following on the webapp2 vs django thread] Is there a built in authentication in GAE (other than just 'gmail' users)? In the previous thread I read that facebook, twitter, and ... users can automatically login your application. Is that true? I assume you are referring to Oauth. But AFAIK, for facebook, I have to use the facebook-sdk (python). I assume for twitter there is a module as well.
For webapp2, I implemented my account creation and session management. Most websites who use facebook connect also offer traditional account creation. I am not sure on how to make it all work together. Some user will be using facebook connect, others twitter 'connect', others traditional account creation.... As anyone worked on the whole shebang account creation? ------------ [from previous thread] webapp2 doesn't provide a 'user account management' thing. App Engine is something much more than just app instances hosting. Take for instance built-in Users/authentication service. Using that you can make it so that any user on the planet with Google Account, OpenID, OAuth 1 or OAuth 2 (via Cloud Endpoints) can sign in to your app, w/o you creating an account for them beforehand. All you'd have to do is something like assign permissions (if there's a permission concept in your app). So, Django's standalone user account management doesn't not fully fit into this thing. You could go ahead and let your users sign in with their twitter, facebook, yahoo and what have you accounts. Who uses passwords these days, anyway :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
