On Feb 9, 4:37 pm, Shannon Whitley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
OAuth was designed with explicit desktop application support in mind. To see how it works in practice, try using a desktop Flickr Uploader or iMovie's YouTube integration. Normally your app will open a browser window (all modern environments do this seamlessly) and ask the user to authorize the application. Once they've done that, they should be told to go back to the application (close the browser window) and continue the setup process (usually by just clicking "Continue" or OK so that the desktop app knows that it's OK to exchange the request token for the access token). b.
