Hello Ross,

I haven't implemented OAuth, and you may have already read this,
but if not: ArsTechnica wrote a critique of the Twitter OAuth
implementation that may be of interest.  You can find that article
here:

    http://bit.ly/c88aa7

Best-
Joe


On 9/20/10 1:54 PM, "Ross Singer" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm looking for anybody that has real hands-on experience working with
> OAuth, both from the client/consumer perspective as well as (and
> especially) anybody that has implemented it for a server.
> 
> The ILS Discovery Interface (ILS-DI) API group is considering the
> options for authentication and authorization and OAuth is one of them.
>  Rather than have me, who has only an academic understanding of OAuth,
> be considered the "authority" (at least for the purposes of this
> group) on it, it would make much more sense for people that have real
> world experience either teach me the advantages/disadvantages (esp. in
> the context of ILSes) or, even more ideally, join our conference call
> and inform the group directly.
> 
> Anybody out there want to give us a hand?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ross.

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