Thank you David. It certainly looks like it could be exactly what I need (In the past, I delayed looking at OAuth, assuming that it provided only the same functionality as AuthSub :-()., -Patricia _____
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ish Ulpin Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [google-apps-apis] Re: A question about login as somebody else Dear Patricia, Google recently release OAuth for Google Apps. This allows you to use a consumer secret to impersonate another user so you do not need their password just their username. You can check out http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en <http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61017> &answer=61017 Yours sincerely David Ruwoldt On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Patricia Goldweic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tony, You're right that I should have posted in the other groups. I'm particularly interested in Docs, Calendars and Sites. With respect to your second question, the desire is to do that programmatically. Having this happen automatically when somebody clicks on a link makes it much more user friendly than coming up in advance with the list of users. Anyway, I think I'll be posting to the docs api group. Thanks, -Patricia [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony (Google) > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:01 AM > To: Google Apps APIs > Subject: [google-apps-apis] Re: A question about login as > somebody else > > > Hi Patricia, > > Can you provide us a more concrete example on what kind of > content are you referring to? Do you mean a user's calendar? > If that's the case, I suggest you to post your question to > the Calendar Data API forum: > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi > > Also, if the user agrees to give access to certain users to > see her content, can't you just give those users access in > advance and include that piece of content in their pages? > > Thanks, > > --Tony > > On Nov 18, 11:37 am, "Patricia Goldweic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > It would be very convenient if I could get the following behavior > > working in my web app: when somebody clicks on a particular link, I > > assign them permission to see a certain piece of content > that belongs > > to somebody else (somebody who wants this to happen, of course). > > Unfortunately, from what I understand, it appears that I can > > programmatically assign permission over a piece of content > ONLY if I > > log in as the owner of that content, but then, it follows > that we can > > never get the desired behavior to work (since for it to make sense, > > the web application user is logged in as him/herself, and > we want to > > give him/her permission to somebody else's content). > > Am I correct? (I hope not :-)) In other words, given > current apis and > > restrictions, is there any way to achieve the desired > behavior? (e.g. > > I assume ClientLogin is out of the question here, right?) Thanks in > > advance, -Patricia > > > > Patricia Goldweic > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Apps APIs" 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-apps-apis?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
