Ok, thanks for the answer.

The solution you describe was my alternative if this would not work.

Thanks!

On Jan 20, 11:00 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, you won't be able to authenticate the second application once a user is
> logged into the first. If you think about the security issues here - and
> there are many - this is something that just won't work and won't be
> supported in the manner you have described.
>
> One solution to the problem you have described may be to create your own
> authentication mechanism between your two applications. The User object does
> not contain that much information. The simplest authentication mechanism
> would be to use a shared secret, timestamp and hash the data being sent from
> one application to another over HTTPS. There are more sophisticated models
> of authentication, but that falls a bit out of scope of the discussion of
> Google App Engine. You'll want to use your favorite search engine to learn a
> bit about web security and secure communications in general if you go this
> route.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Wouter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a question regarding Google cookies and REST security. I have
> > 2
> > apps both running on GAE (java) where 1 application is a GWT based
> > app
> > which communicates with another app that is a REST (Restlet 2) based
> > that provides backend services. This works really good (especially
> > when using caching in the GWT app). My only problem is that my REST
> > application is currently not secured while my GWT application is
> > secured using a Google user id. How can i reuse the Google
> > authentication cookie(s) used in my GWT app to secure my REST app ?
> > Can I just add the google cookies to each REST request i make (using
> > HttpClient) or would that be to simple ? Any other thought on how to
> > secure my REST app are also welcome
> > regards
> > Wouter
>
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