I actually ended up asking one of the Chrome guys for the answer to this. This is what he tells me:
"Ah, to me it sounds like GAE's createLoginURL function doesn't recognize chrome-extension:// as a protocol. It's appending the extension url like a relative path. You can tell him to redirect to something like "success.html" on his GAE app, where he can set headers to redirect back to the chrome-extension URL, although I think there may be a security precaution in Chrome to prevent doing that. If that's the case, the developer can inject a content script into "success.html" that will notify his extension's background page and open the appropriate URL from within the extension itself." I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense, I'm not an expert on Chrome extension development. Have you tried their groups? On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Shai <[email protected]> wrote: > I would still appreciate some pointers on this issue. > > Is the redirect limited to "http://"; otherwise the API thinks I'm > trying to send to file in my application ? any suggestion how to > overcome this ? > Is there a way to manually create the URL ? > > Thanks > > > On Feb 4, 5:10 pm, Shai <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If I try doing a redirect to a normal http site it works fine, for > > example > > UserService.createLoginURL("http://www.somewhere.com/index.html";) ; > > > > This will let me login to my Google app account and then redirect me > > towww.somewhere.com... > > > > But if I try to redirect to html in mychromeextension: > > UserService.createLoginURL("chrome-extension://[extensionid]/ > > myhtml.html") ; > > > > It redirects me to:http://[myapp]. > appspot.com/chrome-extension://[myextensionid]]/ > > myhtml.html > > > > Can someone suggest a simple solution ? > > Mychromeplug-in uses Google app engine for authentication and I when > > the user is not logged in I would like to invoke a log-in page and > > give control back to myextension > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine http://googleappengine.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/app_engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
