[OpenID] OpenID Exchange
Simon Willison
simon at simonwillison.net
Mon Jan 15 08:53:26 UTC 2007
On 15 Jan 2007, at 08:08, Martin Atkins wrote:
> OpenID Exchange[1] is a protocol for doing arbitrary HTTP requests
> between two sites where the caller acts on behalf of the user and the
> user gives that caller a one-time permission to perform the action.
So it's basically a spec for doing with OpenID the kind of things
that Flickr's authentication API does? i.e. a mechanism for letting a
third party application make API calls on your behalf without having
to give them your full authentication details?
http://flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html
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