I have a VB.NET web form website that I up until now have been using an SQL server with user data used to let the users login. I now want to use Google sign-in instead. I cannot find any good example that works. Anyone know any good examples?
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Is there any way to embed a private report (i.e. Link-Sharing set to OFF) in a site where the user does not have to be signed in to a Google account which has view permissions on the report? I understand from this piece of documentation that a private report can be viewed in an iframe only if the viewer is currently signed into a Google account which the report has been shared with.
This is not a feasible option in this case, and it comes down to two factors:
The client requires complete security of their reports.
The client, due to security reasons within their company, cannot create or use a Google account.
This means the only solution is for a 'service' type Google account to be created which authenticates with Google from within the application side of things, without relying on user input.
I guess that the document that loads within the iframe looks for a Google authentication cookie in the browser session of the user in order to authenticate access, so this seems like something that cannot be injected by the server or automated on the client (correct me if I'm wrong). Plus any kind of attempt to script a login through the iframe will result in some cross domain issues.
So, if there is some sort of official authentication technique which can achieve what I'm looking for, and have managed to overlook, it would be great if somebody could point that out! If not, if anyone has any ideas on a less neat and tidy way of doing this, I'd be equally as grateful!
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(coming late to the party, I'm aware, but stumbled upon this myself just now and believe I found an answer:)
When embedding a report, you are able to send a token via their community connectors to give specific viewing rights depending on who that is on the platform. I guess this wasn't available at the time posting this question, but sounds like a viable option now - read more: https://developers.google.com/datastudio/solution/viewers-cred-with-3p-credentials
You can not share an active/live dashboard but you can deliver a password protected version of you report via PDF. To the farthest left of the "Edit" button you´ll see the "Download Report" feature.
I'm making this web application for my company, which extracts basic data from LinkedIn and shows it to the user/employee. I want it to be a very user-friendly experience, hence don't want many login prompts, not even of linkedIn.
There is an itegrated authentication utility that can get the name credentials of the user without him having to fill it.
So is there any way the application uses the firstName, lastName and companyName to search the employee on LinkedIn and display his/her basic data, without him/her having to authenticate using LinkedIn?
I read a bit about tokens, on the developer website, but I didn't understand how to use it?
Any answers/links/examples/hints would really help.
By the way, I'm using Javascript. Not XML, REST or PHP. Even though I wouldn't mind getting an answer in PHP either.
Thanks in advance!
This question was previously asked here but the OP never responded to the comment left and therefore it is left unanswered. I'm looking to sign into a specific Box account via API and am hoping there's a way to automatically set the login and password instead of asking users for theirs. I'm coding my app in PHP and so far I'm using the basic OAuth2 process that asks the user to login (/auth/ticket&api_key). So far the only suggestions I've found requires saving files to local storage but that's not an option as I need my app users to do as little work as possible to get in. I just need to tweak this authentication process. Any suggestions??
Thanks!
this is the answer i got from Box API technical support:
Unfortunately, there's no way to do this at this point. You do have to go through the web based login to authenticate, however once you authenticate the first time, you can automate the refresh token so you won't have to do it again. I apologize for that and just let me know if you have anymore questions about this.
I want to make an application witch involves logging into google. It is basically a small application to always have your gmail with you without always having to go to the web browser and log in. Basically what I want to do is, when the person signs into their google account (or the page url changes) I want the webbrowser to refresh and go to a new point in the form and create an animation using a timer. I dont need help with the animation, I just need to know how to link it together with the person signing into google. And also, If it's possible I would like to have the person log in without the actual google web interface, but with 2 textboxes and a button. I am using Visual Studio 2008 and help with my application would be greatly appreciated!
One of the great things about GMail is that it gives you Pop3 access to the mailbox. Your application should be able to use Pop3 to login to the mailbox directly and not require the user to use the google web page (or any web page) at all.
This would be much more secure and fault tolerant than highjacking a browser session or scraping a web page for emails (as your application would break as soon as google updated the gmail app or the user changed their preferences).
You should be able to find numerous Pop3 tutorials, libraries and samples on the net (and most probably here on SO).
If you still insist to use the web browser control, you should investigate crafting your own HTTP-Post query to the page that takes the GMail login. Once you craft the correct message (including the user's username and password as the appropriate POST variables) you should be able to login directly.
Finally, you might want to have a look around on code.google.com as I'm certain this has been done before and you will most likely be able to find some sample code (whichever way you go).
Good Luck!
I am designing a twitter iPhone app for my school. I wanted to moderate the users who can access the school account. In simple terms i do not want to use the original twitter server but make it local to only few users. Simply lets say a twitter for class. This will be running on our server and only few people can access it. I am very cofused about this any open sugeestions would help me.
Please help
Simplest way - twitter allows "protected profiles", where only users you are following can see your updates.. This is basically a whitelist of people who can see your statuses..
If you wish to allow multiple users to post from the same account, without hardcoding the twitter account into the application.. you could create your own API, essentially just a proxy for the twitter API..
You could then add your own level of authentication over this, so each user would have their own account (and you don't give out the shared account's login details)
In pseudo code, the application would be something like..
if request['username'] not in ['bob', 'alice']:
raise AuthError
if request['password'] != ['theuserspassword']:
raise AuthError
twitter_api = TwitterLibrary.login("sharedaccount", "secretpassword")
switch request['api_method']:
case "getPublicTimeline":
return twitter_api.getPublicTimeline()
case "postStatus":
return twitter_api.postStatus(request['something'])
Final option I can think of - you could run your own Twitter-like site.. There are plenty of "twitter clones", such as status.net (which is the code that runs identi.ca)
status.net and several other similar projects have Twitter-compatible API's, so you could quite easily take an open-source client (NatsuLiphone for example), and, with permission, rebrand and modify it to use the URL of your own site.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "not want to use the original twitter server". If you only want a few people to see the updates from that classes twitter account you could protect the updates and only allow students to follow the account.
However, this should help you create/customize your own twitter iPhone application. This is a link to Stanford's CS-193P course on Cocoa Development. The assignments in the class are creating and customizing a twitter client. All of the project files are available online.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php
I hope this helps.
Create a regular twitter app that requires credentials, don't hard code the credentials in the app. Problem solved. Anybody could get the app on their phone, but only people previously authenticated on twitter would be able to actually use it. If you want to use Oauth you have do this anyway.