Hi Arne,

Thank you for your reply.
You are absolutely right: signing the file doesn't make sense.
What I actually want is having the user ID signed but not the file and
to have both in the same request.
The reason behind it is that I want to verify that it's REALLY the
supplied user who is uploading the file, you know?

Another possibily would maybe be to use <Content type="url"> for the
gadget, but is that even supported yet?

- Johannes

On Apr 2, 6:14 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
>    Signing such a large piece of data would be too costly and wouldn't be
> possible from only javascript, for the reason you described.  Your best bet
> is to make a form that POSTs the data to your remote server and handle it
> like normal.
>
>    Why do you need the file to be signed?  It doesn't actually get you
> anything, since the contents of the file are still supplied by the end
> user.  Signing is only really useful for parameters that the container
> inserts (like ID numbers of people) so that end users cannot tamper with
> them.
>
> ~Arne
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:21 AM, jfahrenkrug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I know that fileuploads work from any google gadget. You just use a
> > normal html file upload form with an action url of your choice.
> > What if I want my file upload request to be OAuth-signed? Is that
> > possible? Would I have to use makeRequest for this? I'm talking about
> > big file uploads, possibly several hundred megs. I'm sure makeRequest
> > has a post-data size limit. And furthermore, I'd have to access the
> > contents of the local file from javascript to use it with makeRequest
> > which wouldn't work anyway for security reasons, right?
>
> > So I guess I just answered my own question, but I'd still like to hear
> > from anyone who has an idea how to solve this.
>
> > -- Johannes
>
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