Awesome! Thanks for that. Thanks- - Andy Badera - [email protected] - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera
Sent from Albany, NY, United States On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Peter Keane <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can say I would not have gotten very far withoout Google OAuth > playground: > > http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/ > > --peter > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Gilles Devaux <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Agree. > > OAuth is not that complicated, reading the specs is. But honestly, if > > you forget to sort the parameters before concatenating it means you > > haven't read them at all (OAuth 1.0 - 9.1.1). > > > > One thing that really helped me to understand the flow was to create a > > fake Service Provider. > > > > --Gilles > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Dossy Shiobara <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On 4/28/09 1:42 AM, Chris Messina wrote: > >>> Is OAuth this hard for everyone else? > >>> > >>> http://kentbrewster.com/oauth-confessions/ > >>> > >>> *Sniff*. > >> > >> Funny enough, I ran into at least a few of the items on his list when > >> writing my own OAuth consumer implementation from scratch. > >> > >> I honestly think that the OAuth _design_ isn't what makes it difficult. > >> It's the way the specification is written. What really bit me in the > >> ass the hardest was the "Parameter Encoding" requirement of the > >> signature when using HTTP header authentication. Deviating from the RFC > >> just for OAuth violates POLS, guys. > >> > >> Honestly, after trying to decipher the spec. and not getting very far, I > >> put it aside and went to Eran's GUI: > >> > >> http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/10/beginners-gui-1.html > >> > >> I almost wish I'd not bothered to confuse myself with the spec. and just > >> used that one page. It's a _fantastic_ reference implementation for > >> anyone developing their own OAuth consumer. > >> > >> -- > >> Dossy Shiobara | [email protected] | http://dossy.org/ > >> Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ > >> "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own > >> folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) > >> > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
