Where was OAuth when I was doing StakeItOut

Posted by Pelle Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:19:29 GMT

While StakeItOut is history now OAuth would have been a godsend when I was developing it’s web service bookmarking feature.

StakeItOut was a secure bookmarking service. Kind of like Magnolia but encrypted and private. I had a neat feature that would allow you to create map certain URL’s to WebServices. Thus allowing you to perform various actions on them.

I already allowed user defined url mappings via a regex pattern. The big problem was that I had to hand code the web services support for each web service.

The authentication bit was the most annoying part of this as I had to hand code it for each kind of service. OAuth would have let me to handle it with a single API.

Anyway considering that Larry Halff the founder of Magnolia is one of the authors of OAuth standard I can see cool similar things happening there soon.

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