--- In ydn-auth@yahoogroups.com, "demongamers" <demongamers@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wish to have my website simply login to the yahoo mail account for the my
organisation so as to retrieve our address book and keep the details of the
website users synchronised with the details in the yahoo address book.
>
> I don't want to have visitors to the site login to their own Yahoo account, I
simply want the site to automatically connect to a single account, the
credentials for which are obviously known by the website and can be hard-coded.
>
> All the authentication mechanisms I can find in the docs appear to only deal
with applications where each visitor to a site logs into his/her own Yahoo
account. Am I missing something... Is it possible to have my site merely connect
to the Address Book API and/or Mail Service for a single, known account, without
having to have a login page or such like?
>
> Many thanks,
> Tim Morgan.
>

ps. I'm aware I could probably hack together the login page form details for
OAuth or BBAuth (if the key creation facility was working) and spoof an end-user
request in the background for the same user every time... but it seems pretty
silly to do so