what authentication approach for a WinForms app which will interact with my Ruby on Rails web app???

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

What people would suggest for an approach for a WinForms client that will have to interact with my web application (ruby on rails, which will use AuthLogic for authentication).

For example options such as: * authentication each HTTP request, * gets a token at beginning of session somehow, then uses until it times out * other?

thanks

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Did you look at oauth?

Darian Shimy

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Not yet - does the .NET 3.0 framework support this? (i.e. I'm looking for I guess an approach that the .net framework supports on the .net winforms side & Rails support on the web server side - trying to find out what people have generally done here)...

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A buddy of mine used this: http://dotnetopenauth.net:8000/ YMMV

Darian Shimy

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the summary reads as this being a solution for if you're building a ASP .NET web application - whereas I'm looking for sample code to include in a .NET WinForms app which needs to authenticate to a non-microsoft web application....