Hmm, the link says that "AuthSub proxy authentication is used by web
applications which need to authenticate their users to Google
accounts".

What I am trying to do is something different. I would give my
visitors a PIN generated by me. The PIN would be validated by my app,
not by Google. If a PIN is valid, then based on the PIN value a feed
from a corresponding private Picasa album would be opened. The users
are NOT expected to have a Google account in order to see private
albums.

On the other hand: what are the risks of having a plain text password
in a python script file? If I understand correctly, the users do not
have access to the content of the file itself, only to HTTP responses
generated by that script.


On 28 Aug, 17:07, "Ross M Karchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think you want to use AuthSub:
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/developers_guide_python.html#Au...
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Martynas Brijunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am looking for a way to implement Programmatic Login from my app to
> > be able to retrieve private albums from Picasa. As they are private,
> > the app would have to sign in. GData offers the ProgrammaticLogin()
> > method which expects the password to be in clear text.
>
> > The application would then ask users to enter their assigned PINs to
> > see a particular album (no, I am not building an amoral site btw).
>
> > I would hate to have my google password stored on a file in plain
> > text. Are there any techniques that allow to prevent this? Maybe
> > storing the username/password in the Datastore and then requesting it
> > from there? Or are there any other ways to bypass the
> > ProgrammaticLogin altogether?
>
> > Best regards,
> > Martin
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