[OpenID] Using OpenID outside of the browser

[Stephen Paul Weber]

I would say something like the way the Facebook API works.  Open the
browser from your offline client, auth using OpenID, and then have the
user click a button in the application on which the offline client
contacts your server (where you are hosting the pages that did the
redirection loop) and asks if the loop was successful.  If so, keep
going :)

Just an idea.

On 4/29/07, Brendan Taylor <whateley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've written a web-based Atom Publishing Protocol client[1] that uses
> OpenID for identifying users. It seems to me that since I have a user's
> OpenID anyways, it makes sense to include it when publishing an entry;
> the problem is that while the client knows the user controls that URL,
> there is no way (that I know of) for the client to prove that to another
> server.
>
> A more general case: I would like to let people comment on my blog using
> the Atom Publishing Protocol. I would also like to use and verify their
> OpenIDs for identification. But most APP clients aren't going to be part
> of a browser, and so the login-redirect-set cookie dance seems out of
> place.
>
> What's the best way to marry OpenID and non-browser clients?
>
> 1: <http://necronomicorp.com/pushpin>
>
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