Yeah, that's what you need to do if you plan on giving people provider choices.
You could do it that way, or you could accept the openID url as form input, do the create_login_url, and redirect to the generated URL. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Scott Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > It says in the docs for 'create_login_url' that if I provide > federated_identity then "the user will be redirected to your app's sign-in > page for OpenID"...is this something different to the page provided by the > handler for _ah/login_required? Does it mean that I should not be serving up > a form, but rather a page full of links (for different providers) created > using 'create_login_url'? > > > On 29 May 2010 03:39, Scott Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oh...maybe this is just a bad time to try? >> >> >> On 29 May 2010 03:29, Scott Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have. >>> >>> I turned on openid auth in the app engine console, and without any >>> changes to my app I got a redirect loop (for the '/' url which is set to >>> login:required in app.yaml): >>> >>> This webpage has a redirect loop. >>> >>> The webpage at * >>> http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/_ah/login_required?continue=http://wassuptime.appspot.com/ >>> * has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this >>> site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is >>> possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer. >>> I tried clearing my cookies...no effect. >>> >>> I tried implementing a handler for _ah/login_required, which serves up >>> the page I told it to...but I can't figure out from the docs how to take the >>> open id URL the user can enter there, and feed it into GAE so I can use >>> get_current_user(). That is, if I serve up a form, what should the action >>> attribute contain as the target URL, and what fields does the form need to >>> have? Or alternatively, if I add a handler for the form submission, what do >>> I need to do in app engine so that the user is signed in? Am I missing >>> something? >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated. >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> >> > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- 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.
