All,<br><br>Thanks for the feedback and it sounds like the community has a number of technical resources to draw on should I get stuck.<br><br>I'll post when I have something to show and/or get stuck.<br><br>-Bill<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:43 AM, wesley chun <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wescpy@gmail.com">wescpy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
as a member of the Google App Engine team, i can safely say that<br>
starting in 1.3.4, the authentication option(s) for App Engine apps<br>
has blown wide open with the availability of OpenID federated login:<br>
<a href="http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/05/app-engine-at-google-io-2010.html" target="_blank">http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/05/app-engine-at-google-io-2010.html</a><br>
(OAuth service provider was also launched at the same time should you<br>
wish to allow 3rd-party access to your App Engine data but don't<br>
confuse "authentication" and "authorization.")<br>
<br>
App Engine apps only need to select "Federated Login" as their<br>
authentication option and boom, now the app allows logins from Google,<br>
Yahoo!, MySpace, AOL, WordPress, etc., basically, anything on this<br>
page: <a href="http://openid.net/get-an-openid" target="_blank">http://openid.net/get-an-openid</a><br>
<br>
now you don't need just a Google Account to login to an App Engine app!<br>
<br>
hope this helps!<br>
-- wesley<br>
<br>
ps. i agree with aahz in that it's annoying to constantly have to<br>
create new credentials at every single new web service you run into. i<br>
especially don't like being *forced* to do so, esp. at a retailer.<br>
i'll end up just shopping elsewhere. apparently, this phenomenon is so<br>
common, it has been named: it's called "password fatigue," aka<br>
"password chaos" or "identity chaos..." see<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_fatigue" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_fatigue</a><br>
<br>
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