I know this and that is why I started this thread :)
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello,
Le mercredi 11 février 2015, 16:59:45 Petr Bena a écrit :
We have OAuth for browser based programs. But nothing for desktop applications that are being used by users. (Like AWB etc).
It sounds pretty simple to me, so why we don't have anything like that?
The reason currently given at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers#Intended_Users is:
"… not… Desktop applications (the Consumer Secret needs to be secret!)"
-- Guillaume Paumier
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