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Re: OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.

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Post by buro9 »

comex wrote: post #40

With respect, this is yet another library that should be a small piece of open source software rather than a hosted service which I'll probably eventually have to pay for and which is likely to eventually go defunct, requiring me to rewrite my code to use another library. It's useful, but not big and important enough to be its own service. Grump.

Occasionally I wonder whether the mantra to "solve your own problems" when looking for startup ideas is making things harder for ourselves.

We stand on the shoulders of giants, the least we can do is help lift others to that level.

If you were to build a business by implementing other people's cloud based product, be it an OAuth provider, MapBox, Embedly, Mailgun, AWS, etc... the barrier to profitability has been raised significantly. The raw costs remain low, but the costs for even a low number of users is quite high.

Maybe this is just the natural order though. It's never really been possible for the author of a lib to be able to charge, let alone charge on a recurring basis, before.

Re: OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.

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Post by nchuhoai »

_frog wrote: post #12

There's no shortage of simple OAuth consumer libraries out there, what I really want to see is a simple way to set up my app as an OAuth _provider_. As far as I know there's nothing out there to make that simple yet.

I can greatly recommend this gem for Rails:

https://github.com/applicake/doorkeeper

Re: OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.

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Post by thomseddon »

_frog wrote: post #12

There's no shortage of simple OAuth consumer libraries out there, what I really want to see is a simple way to set up my app as an OAuth _provider_. As far as I know there's nothing out there to make that simple yet.

You'll find there is a shed load of OAuth2 provider libraries, look at "server libraries" here: http://oauth.net/2/

Also, a few that aren't listed: Rails: https://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin Django: http://code.larlet.fr/django-oauth-plus/wiki/Home NodeJS: https://github.com/nightworld/node-oauth2-server (me) CakePHP: https://github.com/thomseddon/cakephp-oauth-server (me again)

Re: OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.

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Post by josteink »

comex wrote: post #40

With respect, this is yet another library that should be a small piece of open source software rather than a hosted service which I'll probably eventually have to pay for and which is likely to eventually go defunct, requiring me to rewrite my code to use another library. It's useful, but not big and important enough to be its own service. Grump.

Not only that, but the only thing which it seems to have to sell itself is a hipster domain-name.

Re: OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.

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Post by rjzzleep »

_frog wrote: post #12

There's no shortage of simple OAuth consumer libraries out there, what I really want to see is a simple way to set up my app as an OAuth _provider_. As far as I know there's nothing out there to make that simple yet.

that is actually totally not true. not if you want to use it in javascript apps that is, ie. a chrome extension.

currently the only good way to use google's v3 api's, which are oauth 2.0, is to use their new experimental identity library. you can however not deploy that in the play store afair. that said, i'd be surprised if this thing just worked in chrome extensions. but if it does it's useful i guess

Re: OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.

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Post by salahxanadu »

maresca wrote: post #17

This REALLY could have helped me a week ago. Two oauth consumers later, it's not as easy as it seems.

Yes, it really is not. OAuth on mobile is frustrating experience of matching up responses and posts and figuring out which of the 5-10 variables and secrets or keys or tokens to give.
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