Support OAuth for services that have it
Boris Mann - August 18, 2008 - 09:35
| Project: | Contact Importer |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Putting in email/username + password for a third party service is insecure for users. OAuth was designed to specifically solve this issue, and there is a Drupal OAuth module.
It would be great to support this for services that have it (e.g. Google, Flickr, Pownce, etc.)
#1
Hi Borris,
OAuth is a really great idea, but to my knowledge none of the big email providers are using it. I also agree that entering your email password on a webform somewhere is not good practice.
I wrote Contact Importer to be a tool for people to easily fetch the email addresses of their friends to put into a send-to-a-friend form. There is really very little code here, it is simply a wrapper to integrate other tools (I've been calling them engines) that do the actual lookup. If there's a tool that uses OAuth for this kind of information retrieval I'd be happy to include it as another supported engine for Contact Importer.