Interesting problem, maybe someone can help me brainstorm a solution... My gadget is basically a front-end to an app on my server. The UI collects user input and holds a few preferences via the _IG_Prefs object. Then it sends both to my app hosted on a 3rd party server and the app takes it from there and interacts with the Google Contacts API after connecting via AuthSub. All works great.
The issue is now that I want to use a different front-end on my server (i.e. NOT the gadget) for collecting the user input and send it to my app. No problem except that I still want to get the gadget stored preferences. Seemingly impossible since the app isn't being accessed from within the gadget. I can easily store the preferences on my server instead but then how do I tie them to the gadget instance? The user has authenticated to a particular Google Account via AuthSub so theoretically it's possible. One kludgey way would be to ask the user to create a login inside the gadget. This would then tie the gadget to a database entry on my server which stores the prefs. The same login used through my other (non-gadget) front-end would also tie to the same prefs and voila. But it's WAY overkill in this case for the user to have to log in to something new just to save a couple of pretty boring prefs. Any ideas on how to tie the gadget user and the AuthSub user together? Help much appreciated, Nicholas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" 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-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
