[opensocial] Re: How does a OpenSocial app interact with other web sites?

2007-11-03 Thread RickMeasham
On Nov 3, 1:08 am, Daniel C. Silverstein (cubes) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out:http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/remote-content.html Basically, there are a bunch of methods provided by the gadget api named_IG_Fetch* that retrieve data from any domain by querying through Google's

[opensocial] Re: Security Problems

2007-11-03 Thread RickMeasham
Appending an application URL with `up_whatever=value` will make the value accessible using the preferences module. This is a handy thing as you can give a URL out that passes something to the iframe like `up_show=overview` or `up_show=detailup_item=12` However, it must be noted that anything

[opensocial] Re: Is there a way to validate that the owner ID you get back is not spoofed?

2007-11-04 Thread RickMeasham
On Nov 4, 4:39 pm, Jay Hoover (Snapvine) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is great, but how do I really know that I'm not being spoofed? Let's assume that this is important because we are dealing with some resource outside of orkut (our service). There's a couple of other threads talking about

[opensocial] View this page OpenSocial Feature Requests

2007-11-06 Thread RickMeasham
Added request for container.supports --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups OpenSocial Developers group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group,

[opensocial] Request: Add a container.supports() method

2007-11-07 Thread RickMeasham
(This request is on the wishlist page, but this provides a forum for discussing it) Offering a method tentatively called 'container.supports()' will allow developers to test various features of the container. For example, ning (as of this moment) doesn't appear to support canvas pages. That's

[opensocial] All container hosts need to offer an open sandbox

2007-11-07 Thread RickMeasham
(This is on the wishlist page and is here to enable discussion) Quite frankly I'm sick of signing up to all these services to test my apps. And there's not that many of them yet. Therefore I'll probably just stick to developing against one or two of the more popular container hosts. Obviously

[opensocial] View this page OpenSocial Feature Requests

2007-11-07 Thread RickMeasham
Added a wish for an open sandbox requirement on all Container Hosts --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups OpenSocial Developers group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-api@googlegroups.com