Project Type
Development of a module for Drupal 6.x that will authenticate site visitors via the APIs of social web services.
Situation
There are a few individual Drupal modules that allow site owners to authenticate or otherwise obtain the identity of visitors to their sites. The modules I'm most familiar with are Gravatar, Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. Gravatar will display the picture of a user based on their email address. Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect will authenticate users and create an account on the Drupal site. There is also the Gigya Socialize module which authenticates users to a variety of services but does so using Gigya's servers and on Gigya's terms as well. Each of these modules functions in its own manner, offering different sets of features to those who install them. That's really the problem. There's no module that I've found which will authenticate users directly via the original website across multiple social networks, with consistent functionality no matter which service the site visitor chooses.
Requirements
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