Re: [google-appengine] Can I copycat a OpenID provider app?

[Jeff Schnitzer]

Forget OpenID. Use BrowserID (aka Mozilla Persona): https://www.browserid.org/

Jeff

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jindřich Vavruška
<radio.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am developing a business application that I want to run on GAE.
> I tried to explain the OpenID concept to the business owner, emphasizing
> (maybe exaggerating) that OpenID is very easy for users. I did not tell him
> that it is something ready "out of the box" because he does not like
> technical details.
>
> Unfortunately, the guy probably did not get and wants me to implement the
> usual "register -> confirm -> use app login" concept in the business app: we
> (the business) create a user (potential customer) using e-mail address as
> the only contact. Business app then sends confirmation e-mail and if the
> user activates the account within certain time, the user id (e-mail) and
> password chosen by the user will be stored in the business app.
>
> I must admit I am quite reluctant not to take advantage of the existing GAE
> OAuth framework and having to start reinventing the wheel. So there came the
> idea "setup your own OpenID provider". It would be closed and accessible
> only by customers of this business and the OpenID provider engine would only
> store their username and password. Then the business app would run using the
> standard framework, without any weird workarounds.
>
> I was trying to google some OpenID provider app. All that I found is Janrain
> Openid library. Unfortunately, it has very little documentation, if any.
>
> Could someone give me a hint how to use Janrain on GAE? Do I need to do any
> modifications to the code?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jindra
>
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[alex]

Or you could take a look at webapp2's auth module + user model, Account Chooser and/or Google Identity Toolkit, or authenticating users agains third parties via OAuth 2.0 (e.g. google, facebook, linkedin, windows live, twitter, etc.)

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