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I built an Android application that requires OAuth. All was working well using a custom scheme call back which is intercepted by Android. It seems that Yahoo have changed the goal posts and now the custom scheme is not accepted by Yahoo.

I am now looking at possible alternate approaches. My first attempt is to use a normal http scheme and modify my intent filter to intercept the new URL. I have the following in my AndroidManifest.xml :

 <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"></action> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"></category> <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"></category> <data android:host="www.test.com" android:scheme="http"></data> </intent-filter>

Where www.test.com will be substituted with a domain that I own. It seems :

  • This filter is triggered when I click on a link on a page.
  • It is not triggered on the redirect by Yahoo, the browser opens the website at www.test.com
  • It is not triggered when I enter the domain name directly in the browser.

So can anybody help me with

  • When exactly this intent-filter will be triggered?
  • Any changes to the intent-filter or permissions that will widen the filter to apply to redirect requests?
  • Any other approaches I could use?

Thanks for your help.

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  • oh no i currently have the exact same problem, so i really have to create a redirection script? there must be a better solution.. Commented Feb 6, 2011 at 0:07

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How about an alternative solution, placing on your www.test.com a script that extracts the oauth parameters and redirects to your custom scheme callback?

Such as for instance oauth.php (pardon my PHP ...)

<? header('Location:myschema://mythost?oauth_verifier='.urlencode( $_GET['oauth_verifier']). '&oauth_token='.urlencode($_GET['oauth_token'])); die(); ?>

I am succesfully using it for Google OAuth which has the same restriction on the callback URL.

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Thanks. That is the approach I also used in the end. It is clunky but it works. Just frustrating to add an additional hop in to the process.

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