Ah, I think FriendConnect also sets a fcauth cookie which you can read. http://code.google.com/apis/friendconnect/opensocial_rest_rpc.html#site-cookie
Check out the FriendConnectUser class in http://code.google.com/p/allforgood/source/browse/trunk/frontend/userinfo.py --Matthew On Aug 20, 6:31 pm, Matthew Blain <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that FriendConnect works at the JavaScript level (e.g. runs > in the user's browser) while the App Engine backend is running on > Google's servers. There's no direct connection between the two. If you > want to use FriendConnect as your authentication mechanism, you may > want to use it by itself entirely, without using the App Engine User > API at all. > > --Matthew > > On Aug 20, 5:41 am, brandoneggar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm just getting started on my first app and could use some > > clarification on the logon process. > > > I've created a test page with a friend connect members gadget on the > > page. I assumed by signing in using this gadget I could then call > > users.get_current_user() and retrieve the currently logged in user. > > This returns 'unknown user'. If I put a link on the page to login > > using users.create_login_url() then I can retrieve the current user. > > I was kind of hoping to just use the friend connect gadget so I don't > > have to have 2 separate logins on the page. > > > What's the correct way to do this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
