Authentication

From WebOS

OpenID and HTTP Authentication are authentication standards.

[edit] OpenAuth

Specifically LOGIN and LOGOUT.

To login, redirect to:

http(s)://api.screenname.aol.com/auth/login?devId=${like an API key}&f=${format of response data}&succUrl=${URL to return to}&s=${optional username}&language=${language}&tokenType=${how long should session last?}&c=${callback (for jsonp)}&r=${id}

(succUrl defaults to referrer header.)

After user logs in at AOL they will redirect to succUrl?response_data (or to ?res=encoded_response_data). token_a (or a) is the session id, pass it with API calls.

LOGOUT is similar, but kills all current session tokens for user.