Re: [oauth] Getting the user name
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 >> > -- http://lukasrosenstock.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to oa...@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.
Re: [oauth] Re: Getting the user name
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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OAuth" group. > To post to this group, send email to oa...@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to oa...@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.
