Thanks Trevor.

Yes, I understand it does create security issues.

Regards,
-Sumit.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Trevor Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:34 AM, skg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I get the session token from authsub authentication on server side,
> > which I use for subsequent calls from server side. But I also want to
> > access user's data from javascript. Is it possible to use token
> > obtained on server side in javascript for this?
> >
> > Or do I need to use JS Library for authentication on client side also.
> > Essentially meaning I will have to ask user to authenticate my
> > application twice so that I can access his account on client side and
> > server side both. Any way to avoid it?
>
> Unfortunately, there's no support for secure tokens in the JavaScript
> client library, since there's no way this could be done safely (a user
> could extract the signing key from your site and use it elsewhere).
>
> We also don't provide a public method to set the auth token, so
> there's no supported way to pass a token from server to client. I'm
> not really sure this would be a good idea from a security standpoint,
> either.
>
> --
> Trevor Johns
>
> >
>

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