Can we get an update? I think this would be a good selling point for web2py, if ported.
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:12:43 AM UTC+10, Daniel Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi, > > I have tried the example in this "sanction" library and it looks that the > authentication using oauth2 is really easy to implement. Unfortunately the > example uses BaseHTTPRequestHandler and not web2py (which is the point of > this discussion, of course) > > I think that a first step would be, as the example in sanction > demonstrates, to have an authentication token which can be used to access > account info, which can be used to setup an internal web2py user linked to > the oauth2 account. The data which can be accessed via oauth2 will differ > from provider to provider, but probably some basic identification data can > be obtained. It is not clear to me which data can be obtained, how the link > account in web2py can be setup, what is the role of the authentication > token, whether the authentication token can be saved for later use, how > long is the authentication token valid, and lots of other open questions. > > In my research to have a OAuth2 system working I have also tried to use > the oauth2 framework used in the application described in this > thread<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/ftWKSXcOwVc/discussion> > (Movuca <https://github.com/rochacbruno/Movuca>), but it turns out that > the whole OAuth2 interaction is integrated with the data structures used by > the application, and I have failed to split the pure OAuth2 parts from the > rest. > > My goal is to have a basic demo of how to integrate a OAuth2 library with > web2py, preferably this sanction library, since it seems that lots of > providers are supported out of the box, and that more can be easily added. > My main problem is that I am not familiar with the Auth system and I do > not know to configure the login system in web2py to use the OAuth2 library. > Maybe somebody could provide some assistance. I would be willing to > contribute back of course. > > Regards, > Daniel > --
