Hello,

I'm sorry, but there is no secret undocumented scope you can use for the
photos API.

Hopefully this will have some useful information for you about refresh
tokens.

https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2WebServer

Thank you.


Michael Erickson | Photos APIs |  [email protected] | 424-666-1024



On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Anh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a web app project that require Picasa Access, and from
> reading the documentation and researches, I can't find a Read-Only access
> scope.  I realize that if my app get hacked, the bad guys can potentially
> use the refresh tokens to delete photos off of user accounts.  Unless
> someone here can tell me a secret undocumented scope that allow apps
> Read-Only access, I'm having to redesign the infrastructure so that the web
> app make calls to another secure server that actually stores the refresh
> tokens, secret key, and make the API calls.
>
> My question (beside why is in name of small fluffy animals Google didn't
> make a read-only scope) is how does everyone else here who do web
> applications secure their secret key and refresh token to prevent the
> security scenario stated above?
>
>
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