[OSM-dev] API suggestion - "authorise"?

[Andy Allan]

On Nov 18, 2007 11:18 AM, Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:

> When I seen specific authorisation, I was thinking more along the
> lines of the way that Flickr does the authorisation,

Yes, yes, yes please! The talk of OpenID is mostly irrelevant to this
topic, but the way the Flickr API works is exactly what we want. We
want third parties to gain authorisation for our OSM accounts, without
gaining access to our passwords. Giving them a revokable key would be
great.

Cheers,
Andy

>whereby a webapp
> or application is only allowed access to the Flickr account once the
> user has logged in to the Flickr account and told Flickr that you are
> happy for the particular webapp or application to use your data.
> Further information about the Flickr api service:
> http://www.flickr.com/services/auth/ a key is passed as a parameter
> when an application request authorisation.
> http://www.flickr.com/services/
> http://www.flickr.com/account?tab=extend services that you have used.
>
> If something similar to the flickr service is done, then a special
> account isn't needed.
>
> Shaun
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