Facebook uses a token-based authentication similar in spirit to Flickr, Upcoming.org, OpenID, etc. It would be a nice idea to think of token-based auth as a generic module, with each endpoint being a specialized provider. * Open ID module: http://drupal.org/project/openid * Implement a token based authentication system : http://drupal.org/node/60514 * Adding token based web service authentication to core : http://drupal.org/node/46145 As for the other things that i think are useful, there's the friends feature which could find it's way into the buddylist module. -Arnab On 8/15/06, Corey Bordelon <corey.bordelon@gmail.com> wrote:

I think I'm a day late, but I just noticed that Facebook now has an API available. I am wondering if anyone would be interested in seeing a Drupal module using the API to (at least) allow a user to login into a site using their Facebook ID. *

I'm sure other interesting things can come of it once the basics are done, but I want to start simple.

So what do you think? Good Idea or just one more usless module? Any feedback is appreciated.

-- Corey Bordelon

* Note: even though I am proposing this, it doesn't mean that I will be able to write said module in a timely manner.

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