Other Login Options

Hi Michael.

I don't know about Janrain, but for LinkedIn I developed a plugin:
https://github.com/semuel/mt-plugin-linkedin

Shmuel Fomberg.

Let me try it out, then.

Shmuel, what are the advantages and disadvantages of your plugin compared to the Linkedin Solution:

http://developer.linkedin.com/documents/sign-linkedin

Thanks.

I don't think that this API existed when I wrote that plugin.
I will take a look soon and will try to update it.

Shmuel.

Thanks, look for to your observations and which one is best to use, why and how to deploy.

Sorry, I will not do it. here is why.

First, the documentation about linking client-side and server-side authentication:
https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/exchange-jsapi-tokens-rest-api-oauth-tokens

When doing client-side authentication, the browser knows that you are connected, but not the server. Generally there is no way to move the knowledge from the server to the client.
(Without giving a malicious user the ability to lie about it)

Anyway, the LinkedIn folks thought about that, and created a way. However, this way require that your server will be able to accept SSL requests. This is not true for the majority of the MT sites, I presume, so I can't include this in the public LinkedIn plugin.

Shmuel.

Thanks, Shmuel. I have used your solution, but I used the Linkedin Login image from their development page, you can see it working at franchise-info.ca.

Very useful.