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Last week I ran into a minor issue related to my validating signed request code in the OpenSocial Dev App. A container which had been custom written against the 0.9 spec was sending OAuth messages which were not validating, even though I was certain that I had installed the correct key for the container. After some debugging, I realized that the container was sending a property named xoauth_public_key where I was expecting xoauth_signature_publickey. Consulting the spec… Continue

I really enjoy using Firebug to debug my web applications. Nothing like being able to inspect items on the page, log debug information to the console, and execute arbitrary Javascript on the page to test out a quick fix.

When working with OpenSocial gadgets, I usually find myself using Firebug to inspect an IFrame to get the URL of the gadget spec that is being loaded. While Firebug gives me access to this data, it's a little hard to get to, a… Continue

OpenSocial has been tied to the OAuth specification almost from the start, but it can be pretty confusing to try and figure out the differences between two-legged OAuth, three-legged OAuth, and OAuth request signing — terms which are all thrown around pretty casually in the OpenSocial documentation.

To help make sen… Continue

Hi OpenSocial Developers,

For those of you developing on a Google-run OpenSocial container (orkut, iGoogle, Google Friend Connect, or Gmail), please be aware that Google will be changing their User-Agent string for outgoing OpenSocial requests soon.

Previously, this string was:
Google OpenSocial agent (http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)

When the change goes live, the string will be:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible) Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)

This… Continue

I'm happy to announce that we've just finished work on a preliminary "Getting Started" guide for the OpenSocial PHP client library.

This guide should help answer a lot of the questions people firs… Continue