[google-appengine] Re: Application Identifiers

2010-04-10 Thread prgmratlarge
I believe you cannot use an identifier if it is being used as a Gmail account (unless it's the name of your account) On Apr 10, 8:43 am, TrungH wrote: > I have been surprised often by the application identifiers which I can > not use. > > Are there any restrictions posed on them? There are a few

[google-appengine] Re: Application Identifiers

2010-04-11 Thread Wooble
They're also fuzzy, so if there's a f...@gmail.com you won't be able to get the app identifier "f0o". On Apr 10, 10:42 pm, prgmratlarge wrote: > I believe you cannot use an identifier if it is being used as a Gmail > account (unless it's the name of your account) > > On Apr 10, 8:43 am, TrungH w

[google-appengine] Re: Application Identifiers

2010-04-11 Thread Lacrima
And what if I have a dotted gmail account like firstname.lastn...@gmail.com? What is the app id reserved for me in this case? On Apr 11, 10:27 pm, Wooble wrote: > They're also fuzzy, so if there's a f...@gmail.com you won't be able to > get the app identifier "f0o". > > On Apr 10, 10:42 pm, prgmr

[google-appengine] Re: Application Identifiers

2009-05-13 Thread David Wilson
Hey Sri, For whatever strange reason, App IDs that conflict with Gmail usernames are reserved by default. That means if legendofthefiveri...@gmail.com is somebody's e-mail address, you can't use it for your appspot domain. David 2009/5/12 Sri : > > Does GAE place any restrictions on app engine

[google-appengine] Re: Application Identifiers

2009-05-13 Thread Sri
Hi Dave, Thanks for that mate. But yeah that still is a bit inconvinient given that most gmail users may not even be app developers. Also is it possible to show which of the cases the violation is off? I mean whether if it is an existing gmail ID or an already registered app. Or perhaps a w

[google-appengine] Re: Application Identifiers

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Sri, There's no way to see why an App ID is taken, unfortunately. As far as 'transferring' a username goes, any user can register an app with the same name as their gmail account, so if you can convince the owner of the account to register the app with the same name as their address, and then

[google-appengine] Re: Application Identifiers

2009-05-13 Thread Sri
Hi Nick, Asking an email-user to transfer an app name would work if email- users were that savvy (ok gmail users are a bit more techier than non- gmail users, but still asking them to log into appspot is a bit of a stretch dont you think?).. why would people register email accounts similar t

[google-appengine] Re: Application Identifiers

2009-05-14 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Sri wrote: > > Hi Nick, > >Asking an email-user to transfer an app name would work if email- > users were that savvy (ok gmail users are a bit more techier than non- > gmail users, but still asking them to log into appspot is a bit of a > stretch dont you thi