OAuth library source

Question

Hi, For an application in symbian we need to use the OAuth. I searched in net but I could not get any one. If anyone know about any open source library please let me k now.

Answer 1

OAuth is not well suited to rich mobile phone applications because of the requirement to use a browser for authentication. This research gives a good overview of the problems.

Unless you are willing to accept the user experience implications in a rich app (dropping into the browser for authentication), or you are building a widget/web-based app, I'd avoid OAuth.

There are no OAuth libraries for Symbian - integration with the browser is not as simple as it should be. However, there are plenty examples of OAuth libraries which shouldn't be too much bother to port to Symbian C++ (for example, Java example, OAuth in C).