Thanks, this is what I ended up doing. It's working great right now. garry
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Harry Jeffery <harry101jeff...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Prehaps try linking an account on your website to a steam account. > > For example: > > To verify that they own an account with gmod on it ask them to put a > small code/id in their steam community profile about-me section > temporarily. Then you can have your website check it's existence by > parsing the user's profile in xml: > > http://steamcommunity.com/id/profilename/?xml=1 > > If it exists you can then check if their account posesses the game: > > http://steamcommunity.com/id/profilename/games/?xml=1 > > Of course they would have to temporarily set their profile to public > for this to work. Just make it a one off thing and you should have a > pretty good way of verifying that the user owns a copy of gmod > legitimately. > > On 21 March 2010 08:45, Garry Newman <garrynew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there any way that another website can verify a steam login? >> >> I'm quite keen to make one of my websites check whether a user owns >> GMod before letting them download files (because at the moment in the >> comments there's a lot of "does this work on non-steam" - and I don't >> want to pay to let them download stuff). >> >> I'm sure I could manually post to the steam login form and see if it >> succeeds - but I'm guessing that if it doesn't, it will eventually ban >> my web server's IP. >> >> Anyone got any ideas, anyone already done something similar? >> >> garry >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
