Hi Keith, Using an App Engine app to act as a gadget proxy for making OAuth requests is an idea that I know some people have been thinking about. Right now, I think the only solution is to roll your own OAuth provider, but I think it would be worth entering a feature request in our issue tracker since I imagine you are not alone in your desire to make and receive OAuth requests. The issue tracker is here: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list
The idea of a gadget container (your app) acting as an OAuth proxy has been discussed and implemented for Shindig, but I haven't seen any implementations on App Engine so far. http://blog.oauth.net/2008/06/04/oauth-meet-gadgets-gadgets-meet-oauth/ If you want to test your gadgets against an OAuth proxy enabled gadget container, you can try the iGoogle Sandbox: google.com/ig/sandbox Cheers, Jeff On Sep 8, 5:37 am, keith_g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to create an application that consists of a front-end gadget > which accesses services that are provided by an appengine back-end. > > I would ideally like to do some of the retrieval and updating of some > GData feeds from the appengine backend, but am unclear as to how to go > about authenticating. I will be accessing Google Base, Calendar, > Documents and Spreadsheets from the same app. It seems that OAuth is > the way to go, but can I use it from appengine? Can I authenticate in > a gadget and use the resources in appengine? Is there another > approach? > > I would appreciate any input. > > Thanks, > > Keith --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
