Hi Shannon, Orkut is interested in supporting this, so you'll be able to allow users to share their information with your application "correctly" in the future.
The corresponding two-legged app would need to forward the current viewer's OpenSocial ID back to your server, probably along with an authorization token you generate yourself so that you can link a user's session on orkut with a session on your own server. Honestly, it's probably not usable enough to support a standalone login system. ~Arne On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Shannon <mag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apologies to all for bumping this topic...but I still haven't been > able to find anything in the existing OpenSocial and Orkut literature > that sufficiently answers the question I had about accessing an > arbitrary Orkut account from a third-party application. Specifically: > > > My other question, then, is how to add Orkut into this "portal". I've > > read in the documentation that Orkut doesn't support 3-legged auth, in > > which case the users who want to authenticate through the portal and > > sync multiple profiles from a single interface would have to install > > an application on every profile which would allow the external site to > > authenticate through it. And unfortunately, I don't even know the > > workings of OpenSocial enough to know how to do that. > > > > Is there any way around this process (short of enacting the anti- > > pattern of users punching in their username and passwords on the > > external site) which would allow the external site to access their > > profile information on Orkut, without having to install an application > > beforehand? And if not, how would I go about writing an app that > > simply allows this sort of access (would it essentially be an "empty" > > app?)? > > Thank you again for your help and assistance! > > Shannon > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenSocial Application Development" group. > To post to this group, send email to opensocial-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > opensocial-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<opensocial-api%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en.
