On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, mdipierro<mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > the gmail authentication is not based on open-id (yet). it presents > you with a standard login form. It tried to log you in via the normal > auth_user table. It it fails, it tried to verify your password using > the gmail smtp service. If that works a the auth_user table is created/ > updated with the md5 hash of your current password. > > This is designed to be streightforward to setup.
I see one drawback to this approach. If the user is logged in with gmail credentials without leaving your site, he/she may be reluctant to give them because he/she might be thinking "what if this site is phishing for my credentials to gmail?" What do you think? > > We will soon have an API like stack overflow does. > That's great to hear! -- Alexei Vinidiktov --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
