Re: Flickr Authentication

On 10/27/06, sangraal aiken <sangraal-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

tokens expire, so you need to be able to catch the situation and ask the user to re-authenticate at any time. the length of the token's session may not necessarily correspond to your application's session.
This may be a show stopper for me, can anyone verify whether token's do in fact expire and if so what the time-frame is? I thought I read somewhere that they currently do not expire, and that Flickr may add a user-specified preference as to how often tokens expire in the future but currently the default is 'never'.

That's correct.  They never expire until the user goes in and explicitly removes them.

IMHO, it's incorrect to be storing a token anywhere persistently. i hope someone can correct me there if i've misspoken.
I think you're right for the most part, but since I'm running an automated crawler, I don't know of any other way to 'persist' the applications authentication.

There are times when it is necessary to store the authentication indefinitely.  I've done it more than once myself.

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