Request for steam open id plugin

[freeman1509]

I want to request a steam open id plugin so people can log into my fourms using their steam account here are some links that might help you

github.com/SmItH197/SteamAuthentication 
pls help i  need it fast 

[Chris]

Plugins do not have access to server resources which is what is needed to make that work. The link you've posted uses PHP (which runs on the server) as well as LightOpenID which is also a PHP module. There are of course ways to get around some of the limitations particularly steam's lack of support for jsonp or CORS by using freely available proxy servers (e.g yahoo) and since more more and more browsers are now offering crypto services with libraries to polyfill that part can also be handled client side but there is still no way I see getting around "secret keys" which is meant to be kept "secret" since they are used to encrypt certain sensitive information but are useless if everybody can see them and of course lack of access to user authentication.


All hope is not lost however, but I doubt it would meet the "need it fast" deadline

May 11, 2015 15:20:19 GMT -8 Tim Camara said:

I realize that these limitations do frequently interfere with the things that plugin authors would like to be able to do, to which I can only respond that one of the areas I'd like to extend plugins into is more server-side hooks, to allow for these kinds of behaviors in a more user-friendly fashion.

Here is just an example of the warning you will receive from pretty much all of the API providers out there:

dev.bitly.com said:

OAuth Token / API Key Security

OAuth access tokens (and API keys) should be treated as secret data and not exposed to users. To ensure the security of your OAuth access token or API key, we strongly suggest that you make requests to the bitly API server-side whenever possible.

Any requests to the bitly API made via client-side JavaScript present the risk of your OAuth token or API key being compromised. It is possible to partially obfuscate the token or key, but anything sent to the browser can be read by a determined user. Most importantly, never include your api_key or access_token inline in the page. Keep any references to your api_key or access_token in code that is contained in external javascript files which are included in the page. For additional security, don't have the key or token itself contained anywhere in your javascript code, but rather make an ajax call to load it, and keep it in a variable stored in a privately scoped method. For an example of this implementation, please see our sample html and included javascript files.

If you have any specific questions about API key and access token security, please don't hesitate to contact us at [e-mail].