Yahoo Open Hack - BBAuth meets Flex by Me
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
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When hack day started I was planning to write a Flex UI for Yahoo's new Mail API's. I got as far as the lack of a crossdomain.xml file but in the 2 hours I got BBAuth integrated with Flex. BBAuth is Yahoo's new authentication system for 3rd party site access to Yahoo APIS. The process is very Identity 2.0 and involves using Yahoo's login as an open identity system. It was pretty easy to get working with Flex and States.
Start Screen - Login State
User Credentials in Flex - MailView State
Feel free to try it out!
In this app, the user is logged in at Yahoo and the user returns with all the credentials for accessing their Mail. As soon as I get a crossdomain.xml file added to the Mail APIs I will get the mail client working.
Cheers,
ted :)
Good stuff, Ted... It's really cool.. They announced API and you made it..
I am sure, this example gonna help loads of folks..
-abdul
You can "fake" crossdomain.xml files by using ServiceCapture's "URL to File Mapping" feature. So create crossdomain.xml file locally, and map http://whatever.yahoo.com/crossdomain.xml to this file. And set browser to use ServiceCapture as proxy. Problem solved.
http://kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/
verry cool. So a couple questions. First is there a way to get an auth token good only for reading mail. Or better yet only reading from and subject (and not body). And second -- is there any public info available on the mail api yet?
ok I found the public info on the mail API here http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-mail/files/
could you put the code for this for download ??
cheers :)
firdosh