At the moment, there isn't really an option that avoids asking the user for their Google Account password. The Google Calendar API which you mentioned has a few options for web based authorization which would provide an auth token including OAuth and AuthSub
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth.html http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthSub.html I think adding these auth mechanisms to App Engine would be a good feature request. Would you mind addind it to our issues list? http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues Thank you, Jeff On Jan 4, 11:52 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible in anyway for a web application to get an AuthToken for > appengine like any other service like google calendar etc? > > The idea is to mange end users appengine apps from a web application > using google authetication with out using user’s google id and > password. > > If one can get hold the AuthToken for appengine then the appcfg.py > can be tweaked to use that Authtoken to get the things done. > > Any information in this regard will be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
