How to use OAuth in Coldfusion application?

Question

I want to authorize my web-application for all users landing on it with a common google account. I am using google Document List API and want other users to get authorized by the common google account whenever they want to access the document. Thanks

Answer 1

OAuth only connects your application to the target authenticator (Google). You would still need your application to proxy for the end user, your application cannot create a direct connection between Google and the end-user.

That said, http://oauth.riaforge.org/index.cfm is pretty easy to use. I used it to connect to a third party application from mine and, once I figured out the basics of OAuth, it was pretty easy. I then wrote a wrapper for all the internal functions to ease integration.

So, the OAuth package at RIAForge will make it pretty easy to authenticate your application to Google, but will not create a direct line between Google and your end-user.