It's not clear to me how desktop apps will authenticate. Will each author need to maintain a website to perform the authentication? I don't see how it can be done otherwise.
On Feb 6, 9:52 pm, Matt Sanford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We launched our OAuth code to production yesterday with employee- > only access to check for any problems that didn't show up during our > testing. We've been running it through it's paces and fully plan to > have it open to the closed beta group by next week. If you didn't hear > back from Alex and I don't worry, we're working to expand the beta > once things are a bit more stable. As part of a company meeting today > I presented OAuth to the people who haven't been working on it via a > demo app I wrote … it was exciting times to see this run on > production. I think of the application developers on this list as an > extension of our team so I don't want to wait until next week to send > you the documentation. I wrote up a quick how-to sort of thing on the > wiki about writing a very simple OAuth app for Ruby on Rals. Check it > out athttp://bit.ly/api-oauth-ruby. > With any luck we can add some more examples and things during this > beta period, most notably in PHP since that seems to be the majority > of the questions on the list. > > Thanks; > — Matt Sanford
