user != API API can be used to automatically steal all photos from the site.
Permission granted by a user for the gadget to use her friends photos is not relevant. Other users must explicitly change their permissions to allow 3rd parties to access their photos via API via a friend. hope this clears something On Mar 17, 9:11 pm, Pierre Henri Kuate <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vijaya, > > I expressed my concerns in another > thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/... > > I don't understand what the goal of this new policy. > > Basically, by using the Orkut website, a user has access to (all) his > own photos as well as to his friends photos (those that the friends > shared with him). > What I would like is for the API to provide the same level of access. > Every photo you can see using the Orkut website should also be > accessible using a gadget. And without having to grant this access > more than once (at the installation is enough). > > Also, I hope the checkbox "Allow access to photos" will be checked by > default (like the others)... Read the other thread for details. > > What do you think? > > Pierre Henri. > > On Mar 17, 8:05 pm, Vijaya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The orkut team has been discussing about these concerns and has > > decided to implement dynamic permission-granting for allowing apps to > > access albums i.e. if the user has installed an app, at the time of > > loading it, if the app gets denied access to his albums, he will be > > prompted asking if he'd like to allow the app to access his albums. > > This features should be available on the sandbox in a couple of weeks. > > > Does this address some of your concerns? Please post your feedback. > > > Thanks > > Vijaya- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" 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-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
