It might help to know why all the subterfuge what problem are you trying to solve? As a user I would be suspicious of any system that forwards me through a series of links and sends secret information. With all do respect it sounds like you are trying to proxy a limited resource or bypass a 3rd party subscription requirement.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of r00723r0 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:30 PM To: Google App Engine Subject: [google-appengine] Re: Manual Authentication I may have explained myself incorrectly. I need to log in from an invisible client without a web interface, and the login URL is unknown to the standalone client. The client needs to log in and send some data silently. The main problem is that the username and password are saved, so the user will not be manually logging in. Instead the client must be able to log in without a proprietary log in URL that Google provides. A possible solution: * The client connects to someapp.appspot.com/update/, which has only a login URL when a user is not logged in. * The client then connects to the URL and sends magical information to log in. * The login URL redirects back to the /update page, as it always does, and the Google App Engine program stores this visit as programmed. However, this solution is inelegant and annoying to program. Any better solutions? On Mar 25, 6:30 pm, Marzia Niccolai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Please see the information in our Google Accounts section which shows > you how to request/require login and generate login/logout > URLs:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/users/ > > -Marzia > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:43 AM, r00723r0 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am writing a laptop theft recovery service. The client requests / > > update on the Google App Engine server, with user credentials, > > through HTTPS every few minutes. The server stores the IP from which > > the request was made and the time the request was made in the user > > information database model. My question is as such: how do I > > authenticate the user in the Google App Engine server? The username > > and password are given through POST in the HTTP request but I'd > > still need a login URL which the client cannot generate. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
