You were mostly likely authenticated to Google Spreadsheets using "cookie" authentication. Were you already logged in in the web browser? That would cause the API calls to work.
To clarify my previous point: you can't authenticate or authorize a user directly from your application. They would have to coincidentally already be logged in to their Google account. -Vic On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Yuval Yogev <[email protected]> wrote: > ok... but i have just managed to write to the spreadsheet with the > /private/ url without any authentication.
