[Qt-qml] Authentication from a QML application

[Sivan Greenberg]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Johan Paul <johan.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just want to chime in by saying that OAuth is not the same as HTTP auth.
>

Yes, I thank Mark for taking the trouble to post it here, but OAuth is
a different thing :)

> OAuth is the thing you see web pages do when, say, Facebook wants to
> integrate with your Flickr account and you need to authenticate this
> connection - or when your mobile app shows the log in page a social
> service and you must log in and press a button "Please let this app send
> tweets from my account" and then the mobile app says "yey".
>
> HTTP Auth is your traditional browser popup to log in to sites with.
> AFAIK there is no way to do this in QML right now. But I would also like
> to be proven wrong (or hear it's available in QtQuick2).


Indeed, and I could not have found even a single example or a code
snippet to date that shows how to do that with QtQuick 1.0 . I'll
continue experimenting .


Thanks,

-Sivan