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StackAuth is the centralized domain used for network-wide authentication to any site in the network.

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Can StackAuth indicate whether a linked meta is in private / public beta?

Currently, StackAuth returns: state: linked_meta ...regardless of the state of the parent site. …
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Can StackAuth please report which sites use MathJax? [duplicate]

Can StackAuth please include that information? …
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StackAuth feature requests

Wonderful idea! I'm getting tired of the bandwidth I waste everytime a logo needs to get retrieved. Also, it would be nice if the /sites method was paged... it's getting kinda long.
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What happened to nothingtoinstall.com?

This is weird: { "name": "Web Applications", "logo_url": "http://sstatic.net/webapps/img/logo.png", "api_endpoint": "http://api.webapps.stackexchange.com", "site_url": "http:/ …
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Why are StackAuth methods not returning rate-limit headers?

Visiting the page: http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites yields the following headers: Notably absent are the X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current headers that show up in API queries to the sites thems …
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User "authentication" (validation?) in V1 of the StackExchange API

This is relatively easy - just make him give you the same email address that he provided for his Stack Exchange account and then calculate the MD5 hash of the email address. Then compare that to the e …
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated no longer returning email_hash for some sites

Confirmed: http://stackauth.com/1.0/users/febfb878-3f6f-4215-9323-46d15d62ac7d/associated Edit: I discovered this affects StackCenter too. Some of my accounts show a funny blue picture because the em …
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated not returning display_name for some sites

This is because the user hasn't specified a username on those sites yet. The name you see on SuperUser, for example, is somehow derived from his/her OpenID.
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