RE: Google Calendar service credentials - Nitin Gupta - com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapi

8 messages in com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapiRE: Google Calendar service credentials

From	Sent On	Attachments
Nitin Gupta	08 Apr 2008 22:30
Frank Mantek	09 Apr 2008 06:32
Nitin Gupta	09 Apr 2008 23:37
Nitin Gupta	18 Apr 2008 00:18
Frank Mantek	18 Apr 2008 02:22
Nitin Gupta	21 Apr 2008 02:40
Frank Mantek	21 Apr 2008 04:03
Nitin Gupta	21 Apr 2008 07:51

Subject:	RE: Google Calendar service credentials
From:	Nitin Gupta (niti...@gmail.com)
Date:	04/18/2008 12:18:12 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapi

HI Frank,

I am working on a server application. My server, basically needs to frequently fetch the user's Google calendar Events and update them in a local data store. This will always happen in background as a daemon.

I would like to know if there is any option I can use so that I can save time during authentication. My server will authenticate the user on his behalf.

Instead of user, my application can definitely re-authenticate the user after every couple of weeks. We are keeping user's Google credentials within our application.

Cheers, Nitin

-----Original Message----- From: goog...@googlegroups.com [mailto:goog...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Frank Mantek Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:02 PM To: goog...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Google Calendar service credentials

Is this a client desktop app or a server app? Is it acceptable that the user has to reauthenticate every couple of weeks?

Hi all,

This question is not exactly related to the Google Calendar API. It is releated to its usage in an application and hence is for the developers who at some point in time may have faced the same problem.

I am working on an application in which I have to frequently poll the Google calendars of the registered user. This means that I have to keep their credentials in my system. I can only use ClientLogin authentication.

I would like to know about the options which can be used to keep the Google credentials of the user secured in our system. Can I use some sort of encryption? Please share with me the best possible approach which I can use so that application users can share their credentials without much hesitation.

On the Gdata forum, I was told that something like OS X's Keychain mechanism should be used. I am working in Java and my platform can be either Windows or Unix. So, a non-OS based solution is good for me.

As always, thanks for all the help.

Cheers,