alrighty. i’m Just About Done with this. i currently have it working locally (watch it there, you may not want to use your username & password, since it’ll show up in the server logs as part of the request (or not–crud its been *that* long since i can remember whether or not POST vars show up in the logs–as far as filling my drive up with pool images i don’t mind), but i want to have it use the newer Flickr Authentication API. this will make it easier to demo on this machine, as well as give more peace of mind to those installing the software!

the gist:

the program grabs a list of the groups you belong to, and lets you choose one, downloads the images and thumbnails, and creates (or updates) the corresponding SimpleViewer gallery.

my application is so i can have a local version of my interested groups to back up to a disc, or even have an auxillary site for a group i admin.

should be ready for testing for interested parties by the next week or so…one major kink is that some of the “weirdly named” groups have trouble in SimpleViewer.

another thing i’m puzzled by, is how the Auth API has a mode for either web based or non web based, but it seems to be making an assumption that a web based application is for the public to visit a single website. What about apps such as i’m putting together (and the flickr gallery even) — a web based application that runs on individuals’ machines? I can’t think of a good way to not compromise the shared secret except by having all the individual web apps auth through me (so i can pass the secret over) *then* through flickr.

hmmm. someone must have asked this before, and granted i just started looking at the spec today, so i’m probably missing something. time to check the flickr forums.