Hi Yogesh, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Yogesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can OAuth be used to login to a consumer website?.. I am sorry if I > haven't put the subject correct. But let me try to explain what I am > trying to achieve. I will explain this using the example of > www.stocktwits.com > > So as we know that one can login to www.stocktwits.com using twitter > username and password, and the advantage that stocktwits have by > making a user to sign in using the twitter username and password is > > 1) Everytime a user enters his twitter username and password in > www.stocktwits.com, stocktwits can access the users protected > resources from twitter. > > 2) stocktwits can create a profile for that user within the stocktwits > for that user using his twitter username, like letting the user > creates his portfolio. > > First Question: Is www.stocktwits.com is good candidate for > implementing OAuth as a consumer and twitter as a service provider? Yes definitely. > > If the answer to first question is yes, Second Question: If > stocktwits implement OAuth then isn't it every time a user has to go > to stocktwits, and stocktwits have to ask the user to "sign in with > twitter" and it will take the user to twitter page where user has to > enter his username and password, and then user has to say yes to allow > access to stocktwits to access his resources. Isn't this complicates > thing. The user doesn't need to go to Twitter every time. All you need to do is store the OAuth token (the access token) for the user. You can then use this token over and over again to get new updates for the user. > > > Third Question: How will stocktwits in OAuth case will allow user to > create a portfolio, because in this case stocktwits will no longer > have a username to save the portfolio against. You can fetch all the info for the user (including their username) with their OAuth token. Hope that helps! Leah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" 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/oauth?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
