registering localhost as redirect_uri

[Brock]

Hi there,

I'm trying to register http://localhost/ as a redirect_uri for oAuth 2 (in the api console at https://code.google.com/apis/console) but it keeps telling me that it is invalid.

Is this intentional? Can it be opened up so I can test in my development environment?

Thanks

Brock

[Andrew Wansley]

Hey Brock,

Short answer: Yup, it's a known issue—we'll be adding support for localhost redirects in OAuth 2.0 in a shortly coming release.

Two workarounds until that's available: you can add a line in your /etc/hosts file that redirects to localhost from something that looks like an internet-routable domain, or host a file somewhere like appengine that does that redirect for you, passing along the code or token.

Thanks,

Andrew

[Brock Moore]

Ok sounds good. Thanks for your help

Brock

[Andrew Wansley]

We've updated our URLs, and the localhost issue should be fixed on the new URLs. 

[Nathan Hazout]

I think that you now allow "localhost", however you only accept this specific one.

Since I work on several websites at the same time on my local machine, I create dummy domains for each.

For example, localhost.project1 , localhost.project2 .

Those types of domains don't seem to work.

[Marius Scurtescu]

Hi Nathan,

Yes, the dummy URLs you show as example will not work. A native
application supports only localhost, but you can use different ports.
Would that work for you?

Another option is to create and register dummy redirect URIs that have
real TLDs, like project1.com, project2.com etc.

Marius