[Potlatch-dev] Potlatch2 against "forked" OSM

[Tom Hughes]

On 13/01/11 17:38, Eric Wolf wrote:

> We have hit a stumbling block. I cannot seem to get Potlatch 2 to
> authenticate properly with the API. I posted about this once before
> but I think I was misunderstood. I'm not trying to use Oauth to have
> Potlatch 2 authenticate against OSM. I am trying to get my copy of
> Potlatch 2 to behave in regard to my API instance the same way
> Potlatch 2 on openstreetmap.org behaves.
>
> Specifically, I don't see where Potlatch 2 had to be setup as an Oauth
> client on Openstreetmap.org. I keep trying (and failing) to get Oauth
> to work. I've setup an Oauth client and copied the consumer_key to the
> potlatch2_key in application.yml. That doesn't help at all and I don't
> see why it would because each time I set up a new client, I get a
> different consumer_key and secret.  Of course, that seems to be the
> way it should work. Each user needs to setup the client for
> themselves. That's the idea behind Oauth.

No, you are once again confusing the application key, which is the same 
for all users (for a given web site) and the per-user token.

Normally as you say each user has to authenticate an application the 
first time they user it in order to get that per-user token.

When Potlatch 2 is running as part of the OSM web site (or a clone of it 
like you have) then the per-user token's are generated automatically the 
first time a user starts Potlatch. We can do that because the edit page 
is generated by rails and rails has access to the database where the 
tokens are stored.

I suggest that (a) you make sure you have the correct URL entered in the 
OAuth application definition and (b) you make sure you have cleared any 
existing flash cookies for your domain.

Tom

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