I have a Rails app with an API endpoint that I’d like to authenticate using OpenId.
How can I POST to an OpenID endpoint without involving a GUI?
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I have a Rails app with an API endpoint that I’d like to authenticate using OpenId.
How can I POST to an OpenID endpoint without involving a GUI?
Technically, you’d have to implement a client in your script.
The script would have to:
At this point, the script should be authenticated with your blog, and it’d just have to store the session cookie. Subsequent requests can be used with this cookie, so that the script will be authenticated.
If your blog supports it (i.e. doesn’t reject uninitiated requests), you could also substitute step 1 with manual discovery and redirection using an RP library.