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Using Google Accounts for Single Sign-On

by Jordan Running on February 14, 2006 at 11:30 AM

Developing a web service and don't want to manage your own authentication? Use Google's! That's the gist of this article, which describes how to use SSL and XMPP to authenticate your users against Google's database of users in the same way Google Talk does. The article uses as an example Zooomr, an interesting service made more interesting by the fact that it allows authentication from a number of outside sources, including Google, OpenID, and Meetro. The method isn't anything special, but it is an interesting way to get things done.

[Via O'Reilly Radar]

Tags: authentication, google, google talk, ssl, xmpp, zooomr

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