Re: [oauth] Getting the user name

2010-05-21 Thread Lukas Rosenstock
OpenID Connect (http://openidconnect.com/) is an alternative version of
OpenID build on OAuth. It considers this use case as well and returns a user
identifier which can be used to get username etc. in a standardized manner
via OAuth.

Regards,
 Lukas

2010/5/20 Leah Culver 

> Many APIs have an endpoint solely for getting information about the
> authenticated user. I think Twitter's is account/verify_credentials...
>
> Leah
>
>
> On May 16, 2010, at 5:36 PM, "Richer, Justin P." 
> wrote:
>
>  Nothing exists for this specifically in OAuth, partially because not all
>> APIs have a notion of a "username". However, I think that it makes sense to
>> have a notion of per-instance metadata attached to a token. For example, if
>> a user has two instances of a thick client, both of those will have tokens
>> in the server end, but since they'll both have the same client ID there's no
>> way to tell them apart. Username could be one of these kinds of per-instance
>> meta ields. I floated this idea on the list a while back and never got
>> traction on it.
>>
>> -- justin
>>
>
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Re: [oauth] Re: Getting the user name

2010-05-21 Thread Eric Sachs
Dirk, the developer below is trying to use your userinfo/email endpoint but
is getting an "Internal Error" message.  Any suggestions?

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Leslie P. Polzer <
leslie.pol...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On May 17, 5:21 pm, Eric Sachs  wrote:
> > Here is an article on how to get a Google Account user's email during the
> > OAuth process that you can use for display purpose.
> >
> > http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/emaildisplayscope
>
> That's nice, but it seems that something's wrong on the server side;
> accessing
>
>  https://www.googleapis.com/userinfo/email
>
> with or without OAuth login credentials returns "Internal error".
>
> Eric, can you check this?
>
>  Leslie
>
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