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Re: cURL and OAuth (liboauth?)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:54:16 +0100 (CET)

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, pnixte_at_gmail.com wrote:

> It seems that since 2010, when the issue was last discussed in this
> list, a lot of major sites (e.g. Twitter, Google, YouTube) have
> adopted OAuth as their main or even only method of accessing their
> service APIs. However, cURL lacks OAuth support, either internal or
> via a relatively known external library, thus causing the casual user
> to resort to some non-portable workarounds or shell wrappers.
>
> So, are there any updates on OAuth support for cURL or libcurl?

Hi and welcome to the libcurl development corner!

Yes, there were some talks about oauth back in the days and some people seemed
to be interested in getting "native" support for it. Then the discussion died
and nothing has happened since.

I was under the impression that the existing oauth libraries are good enough
for people so the interest in getting this supported by libcurl directly is
not very big. Perhaps I was wrong.

I'm not aware of any oauth work going on or being planned. If someone wants it
added, it is just to roll up your sleeves and start the work.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2012-11-24