jQuery (1.4.2) gets confused if you have any form elements named “action”. You can get around this by using the DOM attribute methods or simply avoid having form elements named “action”. <form action=”foo”> <button name=”action” value=”bar”>Go</button> </form> <script type=”text/javascript”> $(‘form’).attr(‘action’, ‘baz’); //this fails silently $(‘form’).get(0).setAttribute(‘action’, ‘baz’); //this works </script>
Yes, OpenID Connect supports all OAuth 2.0 grant types including Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant and Client Credentials Grant. As we know, Authorization Code Grant and Implicit Grant are typical 3-legged flows including interaction between a client, an authorization server and a user. While the Resource Owner Password Credential Grant and Client Credential Grant are … Read more
No, they’re not an OpenId provider. They use their own OpenID-like system called Facebook connect, which you can use to authenticate users on your site, among other features. You can check it out here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login
There is a need for OpenID. That’s the method that Valve uses according to their documentation. You don’t mention what your application is written in, so I can only guess that you are doing this via a web page. In that case, I recommend using the LightOpenID library. From there, this sample code should be … Read more
I have solved this issue calling this function when the user click on the logout link: var logout = function(){ document.location.href = “https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout?continue=https://appengine.google.com/_ah/logout?continue=http://www.example.com”; } When the user click on the link, the browser redirect the user to the logout page and only when the logout is complete, the user is redirected to the site “http://www.example.com“. … Read more
So you actually want like a “Remember me on this computer” option? This is actually unrelated to OpenID part. Here’s a language-agnostic way how you can do it: First create a DB table with at least cookie_id and user_id columns. If necessary also add a cookie_ttl and ip_lock. The column names speaks for itself I … Read more
OpenID is about authentication (ie. proving who you are), OAuth is about authorisation (ie. to grant access to functionality/data/etc.. without having to deal with the original authentication). OAuth could be used in external partner sites to allow access to protected data without them having to re-authenticate a user. The blog post “OpenID versus OAuth from … Read more