Windows Live Web Authentication on Google App Engine (GAE) using Python

Question

I'm struggling to get Windows Live Web Authentication running on Google App Engine (GAE) using Python, as I'm quite new to the language.

However there are lots of examples for Facebook and Twitter, I was wondering if anyone had come up with a solution for Windows Live yet?

Answer 1

I ended up using http://anyopenid.com which provides quite a good bridge to openid, and I was able to use this with Google App Engine.

Answer 2

From what I can tell, the SDK you're referring to is just used for authentication, not authorization. That is, it allows you to uniquely identify a user by their Windows Live ID, but not, say, programmatically import their Hotmail contacts.

If this is the case, it would be easier to use the built-in OpenID support that's already available on both sides. The Windows Live OpenID provider is OpenID.Live-INT.com; instructions for authenticating using OpenID on App Engine can be found @ http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/openid.html.