You're right in that only a few networks support 3-legged OAuth currently, but we're working on increasing that number in the coming months.
If you'd like a workaround right now which allows users from multiple social networks to log into your website, check out Google Friend Connect, which aggregates users from many networks and can be integrated with your site using the OpenSocial client libraries: http://code.google.com/apis/friendconnect/opensocial_rest_rpc.html As for client library support for 3-legged, at least the PHP, Ruby and Java versions support this- were you using a different library? ~Arne On Mar 12, 3:26 am, neonnoon <neonn...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I've figured out, from all the OpenSocial enabled social network > websites, only a few support 3-legged OAuth authentication, meaning > the user and the consumer authenticate towards the service provider. > And in fact that's what I wanted. OpenSocial seems to be mostly > directed towards JavaScript and Gadget developers. Is anyone looking > for the same functionality and made the same disillusioning discovery? > Did anyone find a workaround for this? > Another problem seems to be that many client libraries don't support 3- > legged authentication as well. Or am I wrong? > > A recent post also covering this > topic:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-client-libraries/browse_thr... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
