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Nick Floyd replied on July 18, 2008 16:19 to the question "Is OAuth an appropriate authorization tool when there is no end-user authorization, just consumer level?" in OAuth:

We're writing a RESTful API that does just that. We use tokens (that we hand back to the consumer) but only as a session simulator / additional validation tool. We are distributing and consuming our own resources. The OAUTH token patten (Authorization) did not fit our needs - we did not need to consume resources from other parties that the user was connected to, but the Authentication fit perfectly.

My personal opinion is that the implementation is appropriate, however by rolling our own tokenization patten, I do not know what impact that would have on standards. We followed the OAUTH Authentication standard, the only difference is that our consumers request tokens from us and consume our resources.

--Nick

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RickMeasham asked a question in OAuth on June 26, 2008 21:28:

Is OAuth an appropriate authorization tool when there is no end-user authorization, just consumer level?

I have an application for which I'm adding an API. OAuth seems like a good idea as there are libraries around the place already. However, I don't need the token exchange and end-user verification. If the consumer gives me the right key for the provided signature, then that's as far as I need to go.

It seems that the 'request token' part of the process is as far as I need to go so long as I can add other request variables into it.

RickMeasham replied on October 29, 2007 12:32 to the question "Can I download slideshare files including the button interface for offline work?" in SlideShare:

Surely it would be fairly easy to mash Google gears into slideshare and thus be able to access 'saved' presentations offline?

rashmi, an employee of SlideShare, replied on October 25, 2007 05:53 to the question "Can I download slideshare files including the button interface for offline work?" in SlideShare:

Its for the original ppt/pdf file. But I can understand the confusion!

Hooty replied on October 24, 2007 20:44 to the question "Can I download slideshare files including the button interface for offline work?" in SlideShare:

If you cannot download SlideShare files, why is there a Download button? That's idiotic.

rashmi, an employee of SlideShare, replied on October 01, 2007 02:59 to the question "are you going to give javascript api?" in SlideShare:

Hmm. Good question. We have not considered this and no one has asked for this yet (you are the first one :->)

Can you tell me more about what you would like to do with it?

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rashmi, an employee of SlideShare, replied on September 20, 2007 00:29 to the question "Can I download slideshare files including the button interface for offline work?" in SlideShare:

Unfortunately, you cannot download SlideShare files. One thing you can do is to go through the whole presentation in full screen form and cache it for later viewing (this sometimes works, sometimes it does not).

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