--- On Wed, 1/5/11, Marius Scurtescu <mscurte...@google.com> wrote:
> > This seems to be saying that the user's machine has a Web
> > server running on it which is reachable from the Internet by
> > sending an http request to the redirection URI.  That's
> > unrealistic because the user's machine won't typically have
> > a permanent IP address reachable from the internet.
> 
> For custom schemes you don't need a local web server.
> 
> You can also use a local web server, no routable/permanent IP is
> needed. The authorization server can redirect to localhost perfectly
> fine.

Ah, ok.  I'm not familiar with custom schemes, but I do
understand that you can redirect to localhost.  Thanks for
the explanation.

Francisco

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