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Asked: 2026-06-12T00:08:44+00:00

I am trying to use the google drive SDK with a metro app. The

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I am trying to use the google drive SDK with a metro app. The metro app connects to google drive using REST services. The first problem I am facing is in authentication. Metro app has a redirect URI which follows microsoft specific scheme like “ms-app://s-1-15-2-1527804777-383724396-285855344-2678584489-1963608684-3789894444-799666712/”.

How can I register this URI with my Google app profile? Google has made it compulsory to register the redirect URI, I don’t know why. No other provider (like dropbox/skydrive) does this.

Could anyone please help?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The redirect URI is part of the OAuth 2.0 spec, which is an open standard and critical to the security of the system. If other providers are performing OAuth 2.0 without this, they are insecure. Worse, if other providers are forcing apps to get usernames and passwords from users, that is bad too.

    For installed apps, you can use the Installed Application Flow, with a local web server (localhost URI), or with the “out of band” URI, urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob. Having said that, I never tried with a metro device, perhaps others can suggest how to perform OAuth 2.0 on metro.

    As per the OAuth 2.0 spec:

    When registering a client, the client developer SHALL:

      o  specify the client type as described in Section 2.1,
  o  provide its client redirection URIs as described in Section 3.1.2, and
  o  include any other information required by the authorization server
  (e.g. application name, website, description, logo image, the
  acceptance of legal terms).
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