does anybody know agood way in granting a connection from one service to another, so that both services benefits fromeach other?
I would like to have an easy but never the less safe way to do a connection between my server and another server, but I don’t know how to do that.
It should be …
easy, so that neither the user nor the service providers have to waste alot of time
traffic effecient, so that traffic is not wasted and conenction is fast
encrypted, so that no person in between can use the transmitted data
and it should be an open and flexible standard, so that there could be more connections to other services (with my server in the middle of this star connection and no connection in between all providers) and that I don’t have to pay a fee ;).
the example in the title is something I think about, because when you have a twitter account you somehow connect facebook to your account and facebook can show your twitterfeeds on your account.
but I don’t want a provider to gather a lot of information beside the really important one that the user want to transmit. so I don’t want the provide to get the username of my user and I don’t really need to know how my user is named there.
It’s like a post-office box. you just have to know where to put your letter, but you don’t need to know the box owner’s name.
and I don’t want the mail-carrier to know what he is delivering, so it should be encrypted.
every clue how to do that would be fine, because I don’t know anything about this 🙂
thank you in advance, Andreas
What you need is OAuth, check out the “Getting Started” guide to learn all about it
And the wiki entry