Questions tagged [stackauth]
StackAuth is the centralized domain used for network-wide authentication to any site in the network.
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Why does the API lack (proper) HTTP cache control headers?
I've just read Kevin's answer to Do I need API key to use StackAuth API? and been quite surprised that the API doesn't seem to facilitate proper HTTP caching already:
You really shouldn't be ...
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated no longer returning email_hash for some sites
I'm not getting email_hash for some sites from stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated since sometime after midnight CDT (UTC-0500).
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OBSOLETE - List Area51 discuss in the StackAuth sites list
The API works for Area 51 discuss, but it isn't listed on the site list. Would it be possible to add it so software using the API can access it without adding specific code for it?
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An associated query is returning a partial record for a particular user
This query returns (in addition to several complete records) this incomplete one:
{
"user_id": 2196,
"user_type": "registered",
"display_name": "Wil",
"reputation": 151,
"email_hash": "...
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StackAuth returning 404?
http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites
http://stackauth.com/1.0/help
Both of these are currently returning 404 Not Found. What's up with that?
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Authorized requests: auth parameter seems broken
I'm having problem with authorized requests.
Every requests with a valid auth token get:
error: {
code: 4009
message: "The 'auth' query parameter is not a valid auth token."
}
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New Meta sites out of order in /sites
I don't know if this is by design, but the ServerFault and SuperUser Meta sites don't follow their main sites in the response for the sites API route. Having linked_meta sites follow their main (...
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Provide a method to search for sites
Due to the new pagination of the /sites method in v1.1 of the API, we have to go through all the pages of sites to check whether a site exists, or allow the user to search for a site.
Would it be ...
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Associated accounts is broken for this user
When I retrieve associated accounts for Joel Coehoorn using this query it only includes Programmers.SE and Webmasters.SE despite the fact that I retrieved the association key from a query to SU. The ...
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StackAuth 1.1 API reports a site without a site_name
Calling the StackAuth 1.1 API associated method for a particular user returns one site with no site_name property (the one for which the user_id is 349). I cannot find a matching account in ...
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Mismatch between user_id as reported in StackAuth 1.1 (invalid) and 1.0 (valid)
For the association id 1de2e2b0-2fb6-4db6-b90d-d0244ed5d13a, the StackAuth 1.1 call returns an invalid user_id of 73203 for Server Fault whereas the StackAuth 1.0 call returns the correct user_id of ...
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Add careers link and info to StackAuth
It might be nice to have access to a user's linked careers information via StackAuth if at all possible. One use I had in mind was integration into a sidebar widget.
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