On Mar 13, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Fabrice Desre <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/13/2013 09:46 AM, Kumar McMillan wrote: >> To answer your earlier question, UUIDs are unique to the app, not to the >> device. The UUID is generated when you (or more realistically, Firefox >> Marketplace) creates *and* signs a packaged app. Your app would thus >> theoretically have the same app:// URL on all devices but I don't know how >> well you can trust this. >> >> A bit of info is here: >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Packaged_apps#Differences_from_hosted_apps >> >> I don't know what happens if an unprivileged packaged app tries to copy a >> UUID. Also, I don't know what happens when you try to install a packaged app >> that is unsigned or is signed by an unknown party. These are all good >> questions to know answers to :) I believe the intention is to disallow >> unsigned packaged apps in the future. > > In any case, the uuid used for app URI has no relationship with the one > from the marketplace; it is created by gecko at install time. D'oh, I did not know that. So are you saying for app://<UUID> the UUID will be unique per device? It doesn't seem like something to rely on in either case but I'm curious. > > And yes, all this OAuth stuff is painful in our setup, and I don't have > a good solution now (I have a hackish one, but it's not good). > > Fabrice > -- > Fabrice Desré > b2g team > Mozilla Corporation > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapps mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
