ubuntu-sso-client needs to ping ubuntuone server

[John Lenton]

The SSO client needs to be able to ping a specified URL to signal approval of T&Cs (and trigger account and subscription creation when necessary). For now this is just for Ubuntu One, but it might have to be more generic down the road (this goes hand in hand with SSO doing a similar ping to trusted api users). Without this, new accounts in Ubuntu One won't work.

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

the ping address is (edge.)one.ubuntu.com/sso-finished-so-get-tokens/<email address>

[Matt Griffin (mattgriffin)]

This would be great to stop users at the beginning of the process and tell them to wait (and to check our Status page) in case we have an outage.

[Natalia Bidart (nataliabidart)]

I think that the availability check must be done in Ubuntu One specific layers (like music store, preferences, etc).

Ubuntu Single Sign On is a independent service which needs to be application-agnostic. We have too much "Ubuntu One" in the code already! :-)

[Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)]

The pinging of the url should be done before returning the CredentialsFound signal.
If any problems arise while pinging the server then a CredentialsError signal should be sent instead.

[Natalia Bidart (nataliabidart)]

The ping to the url has to be signed with the user credentials.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-sso-client - 0.99.2-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-sso-client (0.99.2-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:

  [ Natalia Bidart ]
  * Ping an URL when the login was successful (LP: #621226).
  * Signals propagates the app_name to be later check by the GUI so only those
    belonging to it will be processed (LP: #621377).

  [ Natalia Bidart ]
  * Added modifications to setup.py and a new po/ directory with the file that has
    strings that need translation (LP: #616515).

  [ Rodrigo Moya ]
  * Add clear_token DBus API (LP: #622833).

  [ Alejandro J. Cura ]
  * Make all the signals return the errors as dictionaries (LP: #616105).
  * Credential* signals should return the app_name as well (LP: #621377).

  [ Alejandro J. Cura ]
  * Use Ubuntu One OAuth credentials if they are already stored in the keyring
    (LP: #617355).

  [ Natalia Bidart ]
  * Final outcome (as signal) is emitted after user closes the main window (LP:
    #620008).
 -- Natalia Bidart (nessita) <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:50:57 -0300