Ok, so should we ask users for password then? Is that the only alternative in the moment?
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't know the answer to 1 but, > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2) What is consumer key and secret? Can these values be shown to >> end-users? Do these values need to be known by application itself? If >> consumer secret is supposed to be known by application but not the >> user, how am I going to achieve that, given that user would have >> access to binary files which would contain it? >> > > The secret should only be known by the application and not be given to the > end users. As to how you should go about implementing this in Huggle, you > can't at the moment. OAuth has methods of authentication that are made > specifically for desktop applications like Huggle, but MediaWiki has yet to > implement those methods. > > There was a previous discussion concerning this about two weeks ago (can't > find the thread at the moment), and some workarounds were also discussed. I > forget if they got anywhere. > > *-- * > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 > Major in Computer Science > www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
