You will have to use the ClientLogin API to get a token and use the token to get a cookie from App Engine which you can then use for all subsequent requests. The general process (for Python) is written up here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101742/how-do-you-access-an-authenticated-google-app-engine-service-from-a-non-web-pyt
Please let me know if you have any more questions on this. - Jason On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Erdinc Yilmazel <erdincyilma...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I have a servlet in my appengine java application which has an admin role > security constraint on it. When I try to access this servlet google asks me > to login using my google account and everything works fine. What I want to > do is to write a desktop application which interacts with this servlet > remotely over https. So instead of using a browser to communicate with the > servlet, I am going to implement an http client for my application (Using > commons httpclient). Since there is a security constraint on the servlet > running on appengine, my http client has to sign in to google somehow... If > I login using a browser and copy the cookies set by google to my own http > client, everything works as expected. What is the best way to implement a > login procedure for a desktop app like this? I want the user of the app (Me > in this case) to enter the google username and password and access the > password protected servlet remotely... > > One thing I tried was simulating the exact browser and user behaviour > (Filling in the form for username and password, submitting it, following > redirects etc.) and this was working a couple of months ago, but when google > changes something, it fails. Is there an api for this? > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
