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I want to know how stackoverflow.com enables login via my Gmail Account.
Is there any arrangment between the two companies? Or its just an api ?
Does Gmail send information to Stack Overflow?
Where can I find the API?
This is called
Open IDbased authentication this is a very nice presentation which explainWhyandHowit worksWhen you go to some site like stackoverflow it gives you option to login via Yahoo or Gmail or any other Open ID provider.
Let’s say you choose Yahoo. StackOverflow will then ask Yahoo to authenticate you using your ID + password and give stackoverflow result whether you were successful or not. If you are successful, stackoverflow now know you are authentic user and it will log you in. In this way stackoverflow can avoid storing user ids and password for every member and you can avoid need of creating another ID just for stackoverflow