[OpenID] OpenId from Desktop App

Mark Atwood me at mark.atwood.name
Thu Aug 2 17:25:16 UTC 2007


"Immad Akhund" <i.akhund at gmail.com> writes:
> Anyone have a good method for using openId authentication from a Desktop
> application that does not have a web browser built in?
> 
> I can't think of anything very user friendly and easy to implement.

That's what the oauth project is for.  We recognized that OpenId
makes it hard for non-web-apps to login into services that have a
http api, so we're working on filling that hole.


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