Thanks Luca, Let me ask this: what else could we be doing to make the "walk up" experience of OAuth easier/better?
I think that the website needs an overhaul (as do most of the Open/Social Stack sites!!). I'd like to know what we could do to make these sites better — meeting a wider community of practice's needs. Chris On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Luca Mearelli <luca.meare...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Chris Messina <chris.mess...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is OAuth this hard for everyone else? > > http://kentbrewster.com/oauth-confessions/ > > I think that we agree that OAuth *is* complex, and has a few hard > points (specially about the signing process e.g. the signature base > string composition) but if we think at what it's trying to do (passing > authorization around in a three subjects dance across untrusted > channels) that's understandable. > These are the things that have helped me (might be banal, might be not...): > > - read the spec, try to understand the steps, > - look at the examples and walkthroughs (specially those at hueniverse.com) > - look at the examples from the library of your choice (the ruby one in my > case) > - try out with the test providers > - read the mailing list > > Luca > > > > -- Chris Messina Open Web Advocate factoryjoe.com // diso-project.org // openid.net // vidoop.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
