Prehaps try linking an account on your website to a steam account. For example:
To verify that they own an account with gmod on it ask them to put a small code/id in their steam community profile about-me section temporarily. Then you can have your website check it's existence by parsing the user's profile in xml: http://steamcommunity.com/id/profilename/?xml=1 If it exists you can then check if their account posesses the game: http://steamcommunity.com/id/profilename/games/?xml=1 Of course they would have to temporarily set their profile to public for this to work. Just make it a one off thing and you should have a pretty good way of verifying that the user owns a copy of gmod legitimately. On 21 March 2010 08:45, Garry Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way that another website can verify a steam login? > > I'm quite keen to make one of my websites check whether a user owns > GMod before letting them download files (because at the moment in the > comments there's a lot of "does this work on non-steam" - and I don't > want to pay to let them download stuff). > > I'm sure I could manually post to the steam login form and see if it > succeeds - but I'm guessing that if it doesn't, it will eventually ban > my web server's IP. > > Anyone got any ideas, anyone already done something similar? > > garry > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
