thanks, now it makes sense.
don On Nov 13, 2:13 am, Robert Winch <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want to keep track of the access token, then you would likely have > authentication occur in your application as well as the authentication at > the Service Provider (i.e. at Google). If you do not want to maintain users > for your application, then you could use a federated login for your > application. From the little I know about your use case, you may consider > using OpenID Hybrid protocol which allows you to authenticate the user (from > an external system) and receive an access token in one step [1]. You can > find Google specific documentation on OpenID+Hybrid on Google's site [2]. > > [1]http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-and-OAuth-Hybrid-Extension > [2]http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html#oauth > > HTH, > Rob > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, > > > but from the application (consumer) point of view, the user has not > > entered any username (user enters username and password on google > > website). > > Is there a way to query what is the username/email used to login ? > > > many thanks > > > On Nov 13, 1:17 am, Robert Winch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The access token to user relationship should be stored within the > > > application that requested the access token. For this to work well you > > will > > > likely want the user to authenticated to your application and then > > request > > > the access token. The next time they login, the access token can be > > reused. > > > > Regards, > > > Rob > > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > hi, > > > > > i am very confused, once i get the access token from google to access > > > > user contacts, > > > > > how do I associate that user with that token again in the future? > > > > > many thanks > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
