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    Hi,

    I am trying to implement Google Account Authentication for Installed Apps using the API provided by google.

    http://code.google.com/apis/accounts...alledApps.html

    One of the requirement for this is to know how to make HTTPS POST requests and handle responses.

    Is there a Qt way to do this?

    Thanks a lot.

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    Default Re: Https POST Request

    Thanks for your reply.

    The Qt Assistant doesn't talk anything about Https and therefore I got the doubt.

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    Default Re: Https POST Request

    "s" stands for "secure", you need an SSL layer to have https. In Qt3 you can use a Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA - see our links section) or QtSSLSocket - a Qt Solution from Trolltech. With Qt4 you can use the Qt Solution as well. Alternatively you'll need to provide your own SSL layer implementation. The application layer (HTTP) remains the same.

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    Default Re: Https POST Request

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
    "s" stands for "secure", you need an SSL layer to have https.
    I am aware of that.

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
    In Qt3 you can use a Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA - see our links section) or QtSSLSocket - a Qt Solution from Trolltech. With Qt4 you can use the Qt Solution as well.
    oh, I thought Qt does that. Thanks for clarifying it.

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
    Alternatively you'll need to provide your own SSL layer implementation.
    openSSL will do, rite?

    Thanks a lot

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    Quote Originally Posted by munna View Post
    oh, I thought Qt does that.
    Not out of the box.

    openSSL will do, rite?
    Yes, but you need to implement a layer which you can use to wrap Qt sockets into. That's essentially what QtSSLSocket does, but you have to pay for it.

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    Default Re: Https POST Request

    I found this python code which does not perform any kind of encryption

    Qt Code:
    1. import re, httplib2
    2.  
    3. h = httplib2.Http()
    4. auth_uri = 'https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin'
    5. headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
    6. myrequest =
    7. "Email=YOUR_GMAIL_ADDRESS&Passwd=GMAIL_PASSWORD&service=blogger&service=Whatever-TestApp-0.0"
    8. response, content = h.request(auth_uri, 'POST', body=myrequest,
    9. headers=headers)
    10.  
    11. # Extract the auth token from the returned content, and print it to
    12. stdout.
    13. print re.search('Auth=(\S*)', content).group(1)
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    There is also similar perl code which does not perform any encryption.

    Will the correspoding Qt code work or will I still need to encrypt the data and then send ?

    I would be greatful to you if can explain this to me like I am a 4 year old kid, with some example.

    Thanks a lot.

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    Default Re: Https POST Request

    How do you know the code doesn't perform encryption? Maybe the library does that transparently? You could just post a regular http request and see what happens...

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    Default Re: Https POST Request

    This is what I did

    Qt Code:
    1. connect(&http,SIGNAL(done(bool)),this,SLOT(httpDone(bool)));
    2. connect(&http,SIGNAL(readyRead(const QHttpResponseHeader &)),this,SLOT(readyRead(const QHttpResponseHeader &)));
    3.  
    4. http.setHost("www.google.com");
    5.  
    6. QString str = "Email=somename@gmail.com&Passwd=somepassword"
    7. "&service=cl&source=Gulp-CalGulp-1.05";
    8. QHttpRequestHeader header( "POST", "/accounts/ClientLogin") ;
    9. header.setValue("Host", "https://www.google.com") ;
    10. header.setContentType( "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" ) ;
    11. http.request(header,QVariant(str).toByteArray());
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    Qt Code:
    1. void UpdateChecker::readyRead(const QHttpResponseHeader &header)
    2. {
    3. //QString str = header.reasonPhrase();
    4. result = QString(http.readAll().data());
    5. }
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    I got result as

    Qt Code:
    1. <HTML>
    2. <HEAD>
    3. <TITLE>Moved Temporarily</TITLE>
    4. </HEAD>
    5. <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
    6. <H1>Moved Temporarily</H1>
    7. The document has moved <A HREF="https://https/accounts/ClientLogin">here</A>.
    8. </BODY>
    9. </HTML>
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    Probably Qt itself is generating this.

    Can you please give me some minimal example on how I encrypt the data and send ?

    Thanks a lot.

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    Default Re: Https POST Request

    I did one more experiment. Here it is

    Qt Code:
    1. <html>
    2. <body>
    3. <form action="https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" method="post">
    4.  
    5. <input type="hidden" name="service" value="cl" />
    6. <input type="hidden" name="source" value="some-app-1.0" />
    7.  
    8. Email :
    9. <input type="text" name="Email" />
    10. <br/>
    11. Password:
    12. <input type="password" name="Passwd" />
    13. <br/>
    14. <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Login">
    15.  
    16. </form>
    17. </body>
    18. </html>
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    The response to this was what google sends and this code works correctly.

    Isn't this similar to the code above?

    Maybe I have got the basics itself wrong.

    Please help.
    Thanks a lot

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    Default Re: Https POST Request

    The problem is that QHttp doesn't handle https (SSL). Without introducing the SSL layer you won't be able to send a https request.

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