HI Frank, I am working on a server application. My server, basically needs to frequently fetch the user's Google calendar Events and update them in a local data store. This will always happen in background as a daemon.
I would like to know if there is any option I can use so that I can save time during authentication. My server will authenticate the user on his behalf. Instead of user, my application can definitely re-authenticate the user after every couple of weeks. We are keeping user's Google credentials within our application. Cheers, Nitin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Mantek Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Google Calendar service credentials Is this a client desktop app or a server app? Is it acceptable that the user has to reauthenticate every couple of weeks? Frank Mantek Google On Apr 9, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Nitin Gupta wrote: > Hi all, > > > > This question is not exactly related to the Google Calendar API. It is > releated to its usage in an application and hence is for the > developers who > at some point in time may have faced the same problem. > > > > I am working on an application in which I have to frequently poll > the Google > calendars of the registered user. This means that I have to keep their > credentials in my system. I can only use ClientLogin authentication. > > > > I would like to know about the options which can be used to keep > the Google > credentials of the user secured in our system. Can I use some sort of > encryption? Please share with me the best possible approach which I > can use > so that application users can share their credentials without much > hesitation. > > > > On the Gdata forum, I was told that something like OS X's Keychain > mechanism > should be used. I am working in Java and my platform can be either > Windows > or Unix. So, a non-OS based solution is good for me. > > > > As always, thanks for all the help. > > > > Cheers, > > Nitin > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" 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-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
