I opened an issue about this. On Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:52:52 UTC-5, Alec Taylor wrote: > > 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 >> >
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