On 06/21/2009 10:45 PM, markww wrote: > Hi, > > I spent some time figuring out if OpenID would work well with my GWT > app, not sure if anyone else has tried. If I understand correctly, > when a user gets to my app, I need to ask them to sign in with an > OpenID provider (google, yahoo, facebook, etc). > > This is a bit problematic because the providers will either require a > redirect to their own sign-in page, or a popup asking for user login > information. Does anyone else find that to be user-unfriendly? > > On the plus side, it only has to be done once, I can save a session > cookie afterwards so I don't have to keep prompting them with every > visit to my site - but this is how a do-it-yourself login would work > anyway. > > Anyone have experience with OpenID + GWT? There's a write up of one > possible way to integrate it here: > > http://chaoticjava.com/posts/using-openid-within-gwt/ > > but the redirects / popups are making me lean towards not doing it, > even though it would be nice to save my users from yet another > username/password combo.
I notice that slash is now supporting openid. This may be a mod supplied by slashdot, or it may be in the baseline. You might see how they do it. I'd be interested in this as well. If I don't hear from you, I'll look into it as well, to see how it's done in JS and Perl. Cheers, jec --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" 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-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
