oauth with ruby

To be blunt, is it possible to do it through the ruby interpreter in browserplus.
I don't think so but it doesn't hurt to ask

To be blunt, is it possible to do it through the ruby interpreter in browserplus.
I don't think so but it doesn't hurt to ask

that's a great question. We've talked a lot about openid and oauth and end user
pain points. the result of the discussion was that many people felt that we could
write a small service which makes oauth style authentication faster and easier for
end users. The idea would be that rather than having to redirect, if browserplus is
present, you could drop down a secure html box that the user is able to authenticate
to. This would be less interruption in the flow of browsing. I am not as savy as I'd
like to be on the functioning of oauth and flow, but I think there is a good opportunity
here.

The key to making this work would be the ability of browserplus services to render
custom html prompts. If you're curious about pursuing this, let me know. This function
(custom html prompts) is not well documented at the moment, but I'd be willing to
provide some working sample code on github to fill the gap?

very best,
lloyd

one more thought, it would be interesting to understand if any browser vendors have
taken steps to address this problem, either in action or thought. it would be also interesting
to understand if there are any addons out there that are working on this problem.

If we could take the best thought out there on the usability problems around oauth, and
provide a service to make things better, it could be an interesting bit of work to throw
at browser vendors to demonstrate a better way to do things...

lloyd

LLoyd , I would love to see some sample code:) And try my best to work on this. I have to admit, I am having fun trying to lick this.