[annotator-dev] Authenticating a user

Tue Aug 16 14:45:59 UTC 2011

OK I see that if I add a user account on the store, I get a bookmarklet that
DOES work. The user and account info then gets written to the annotation as
it should. I've looked at the wiki page you posted. It seems to me that I
need to tell the Auth plugin where to go and find the auth token using the
tokenUrl option?

I am unsure as to how this works. When I log into in the store and (without
using the bookmarklet) how does an annotator on another site know that I am
in fact logged in? Or is the use of the bookmarklet necessary? If it is, I
can do checks that makes sure the annotations are only occurring on the
pages I want them to. However, this will force users to install a
bookmarklet. Is there a way to log users into my site (via the store) and
then authenticate them without using the bookmarklet?

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 16 August 2011 10:51, Ewald Zietsman <ewald at siyavula.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
>
> Before going into the details I wanted to check you've read this page:
>
> <https://github.com/okfn/annotator/wiki/Authentication>
>
>
>> I want to allow users to log into the annotator-store before they start
>> annotating my page. I've added the Auth plugin, but I don't know what to
>> make the Auth URL. I'd like to set the Username and account ID in the
>> annotation since I'll need to access the information for another purpose.
>>
>
> You'll always need to set the account ID and the username should be set as
> part of the auth plugin (see config on Open Shakespeare).
>
>
>> I have a local store running at localhost:5000 and I've made a user
>> account on that. It provided me with user account info but I need to include
>> that into my annotations automatically. Any help on how to do this would be
>> much appreciated.
>>
>
> See that wiki page for an explanation. The Auth plugin should be doing this
> automatically if configured correctly.
>
> Rufus
>
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