On May 17, 12:48 am, Nathan Beach wrote:
> Google has enhanced our OAuth approval flow to significantly improve the
> user experience for installed applications that use OAuth to access our
> GData APIs.
> Previously, the only way installed applications could use OAuth to access
> our GData API
Nathan,
This looks very useful. Regarding auto-detection techniques, I think the
page misses one, which would be for the installed application to register a
custom protocol handler and provide for the callback URL to use that custom
protocol, thereby relaunching the application. If I'm not mistake
Nathan Beach wrote:
> Google has enhanced our OAuth approval flow to significantly improve
> the user experience for installed applications that use OAuth to
> access our GData APIs.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't this kinda saw one of the
legs off of OAuth?
This approach basically
On May 28, 3:42 pm, jr conlin wrote:
>
> It may just be that there are certain environments that one can't do
> OAuth. I'd rather that folks use a different auth mechanism for those
> than further confuse the standard.
>
Well said. I've been thinking along the same lines after I met a few
folk
> > It may just be that there are certain environments that one can't do
> > OAuth. I'd rather that folks use a different auth mechanism for those
> > than further confuse the standard.
>
> Well said. I've been thinking along the same lines after I met a few
> folks at IIW and discussed the same.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, jr conlin wrote:
>
> Nathan Beach wrote:
>> Google has enhanced our OAuth approval flow to significantly improve
>> the user experience for installed applications that use OAuth to
>> access our GData APIs.
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't this kinda s
