Signed Requests are not yet supported by Google Friend Connect - this is coming in a future release.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Peter Svensson <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > thanks for the idea. That might be good enough security, but consider that > you're open to bots (or humans) registering themselves with stolen ids. > I would prefer if Google provided a simple functionality to authenticate > users, a kind of 'quick path', since it would be so usable, and is asked > from many different corners. > > Cheers, > PS > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:08 PM, John Weidner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I just wrote a custom gadget that prompts for a username and >> password. Then I use makeRequest to send these credentials along >> with their open social viewerId. On the server side, if the username >> and password are correct, I store the viewerId in my user database for >> that user. So now I know the viewerId for these users. But I'm >> currently doing this without signed authentication. >> >> On Dec 15, 7:19 am, psvensson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I just want to report back to my server the unique friend connect id >> > and basic info of the current viewer. How hard can it be? >> > >> > I might not have understood how to do this correctly, but here's what >> > I have done; >> > >> > 1. I have made sure that friend connect works on my site canvas, rpc- >> > html, basic widgets and all that jazz. >> > 2. I have made a simple custom widget, I call osaccess.xml which gets >> > pulled in OK (Which I can see in firebug. It's of course proxied by a >> > google server, but the content that gets in the browser is the same >> > that I wrote). >> > 3. From JS inside that custom widget, I make a request back to my >> > server. It works fine if I use NONE as authorizationtype. >> > 4. When I switch to SIGNED, I want to utilize that the google proxy >> > guarantees id, and packs a lot of good info about the user/viewer. >> > >> > The code looks like this; >> > >> > function foo() >> > { >> > ..... >> > var params = {}; >> > params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.CONTENT_TYPE] = >> > gadgets.io.ContentType.TEXT; >> > params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.AUTHORIZATION] = >> > gadgets.io.AuthorizationType.SIGNED; >> > params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.REFRESH_INTERVAL] >> > = 5; >> > var url = "http://howtobethechange.appspot.com/ >> > osaccess/"; >> > console.log("calling url... '"+url+"'"); >> > gadgets.io.makeRequest(url, reqcb, params); >> > }; >> > >> > function reqcb(data) >> > { >> > console.log("reqcb called...."); >> > console.dir(data); >> > } >> > >> > The reqcb always reply "404: not found" when I use SIGNED. >> > >> > What is it that is not found? >> > >> > Where can I read about examples on how to set this up. It seems to be >> > the absolutely single first, top of mind, thing that any pgroammer >> > want to do and sort of _the whole point_ of friend connect - to report >> > back the certified user id of the current viewer to the site hosting >> > the widgets. >> > >> > What am I missing? >> > >> > I should point out that I have registered my site athttps:// >> www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains, using a x.509 PEM >> > certificate. It feels like there is a 'magic' url I have to provide >> > (though I can't find any access from any google proxies or anything >> > else when running the script). >> > >> > Very thankful for any advice. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > PS >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" 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/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
