[erlang-questions] web authentication

[Wilson MacGyver]

Yes, you can use either google or facebook as a login in place of your
own system.
You'd use oAuth for this. Basically it involves bouncing them to
either a google or
facebook login page, with a url to return to on success.

when it returns back, you'll have a token.

we use it for exporting data out of google. more info at

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/oauth.html

in that article, there is also a link to google's oauth playground for
testing and see how it works.

the facebook one is documented at
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/

Twitter also provides very similar service too.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
> My original question also asked about openId - can't I get google (or something)
> to authenticate the user then do some kind of hand-over to me? If this
> is the case then I wouldn't have to bother with the details of passwords myself

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