Currently there is no publicly available method for having an app outside of orkut. Opening up APIs with 3 legged authentication is in the plans. Could you shoot me an email at [email protected] with some details on the app you are trying to build. We could try and get you on an early access program for the API access from mobile.
Thanks Rahul On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:16 PM, KK - <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure if this can help you: > > If I am right,do you require some kind of Single Sign On ( SSO ) between > orkut and your apps in IFRAMES. > > In such scenario, you can pass the orkut user name ( display name or given > name) as GET paramenter in URL. With the name available to your apps in > IFRAME, you should be able to capture the name from the GET parameter from > your application and create an user with the same name and authenticate him. > In case of already created user you can do a check and just authenticate the > user. > > Thanks > KK > www.twitter.com/kkinfy > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Afshar Ahmed <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> I am developing a mobile application that allows users to access >> their orkut data (messages, events, etc.) by just providing their >> orkut username and password to my application. My problem is, that i >> don't know whether and how orkut provides username/password >> authentication (something like clientLogin access ). I don't want to >> redirect user to facebook site for signin or any permission granting >> page. >> >> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. >> >> Regards >> Afshar >> >> >> > > > > -- Rahul S. Kulkarni Product Manager | Google Inc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
