Thank it's way more clear for me now, I still got a problem, we're
using javascript to generate the iframe/iframe url and there is not
other solution for us,
do you have any idea to generate this token and give it to
javascript ?

On Nov 4, 2:47 pm, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The token is something that is generated by the container (the social
> network site), and is digested by shindig and it contains the:
> - owner id
> - viewer id
> - app id
> - module id
> - gadget url
> - container name
>
> Javascript has nothing to do with this, except that it passes the binary
> encrypted blob along from it's iframe url value (the container put it
> there), to the social back-end calls it makes (aka shindig).
>
> The reason it needs to be encrypted is because it provides the security that
> the owner == the actual owner and the viewer == the actual viewer, without
> the protection from encryption you could fake your own token and pretend to
> be anyone... which is bad :)
>
> Now the confusion probably comes from the fact that the -static demo
> container- uses a fake, plain text, demo token .. in the format of
> "owner:viewer:etc:etc". This is just because it's hard to make proper
> encrypted tokens in javascript, and because it's kind of nice to be able to
> edit it in a demo environment ... however this is *not* at all meant for
> anything like a real site / situation and is only there for demo reasons! So
> all that plain text token stuff you see in javascript, please just forget
> you saw that when your thinking about a real implementation :)
>
>   -- Chris
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM, nvgigigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I do implement the all shindig thing in our web site and did test with
> > a non encoded secure token (everything was working pretty well)
> > except that I cant found the right way to use an encoded secure token
> > now.
> > I'm using the javascript to create a valid container so I guess it's
> > somewhere inside the javascript?
>
> > I saw in partuza that you're using PHP to generate the container, and
> > I understand the code, but I didn't understand in JS
>
> > Thanks for your help
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