Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of Help/Dialog/OAuthAuthorisationWizard

Timestamp:

2010-03-23T23:38:49+01:00 (15 years ago)

Author:

anonymous

Comment:

OSM now supports secure login, so remove the comment about insecure login from the semi-automatic section

Help/Dialog/OAuthAuthorisationWizard

@@ -92 +92 @@
 
 === Semi-automatic authorisation process ===
-You can also retrieve an Access Token semi-automatically. If you use this process you have to use both dialogs in JOSM and the OSM website launched in an external browser to create and authorise the Access Token. In contrast to the fully automatic process you never have to enter your OSM username or your OSM password into a JOSM dialog. This process is therefore suitable for a user which - for whatever reason - never wants to use their OSM password outside of the OSM website. Note however, that the semi-automatic process is '''not''' significantly more secure than the fully automatic process. Your OSM password will be transferred in clear-text over the Internet, too, because the OSM website doesn't currently provide a login page protected by HTTPS. The fully automatic process runs exactly the same steps that would run manually in the semi-automatic process, just without your intervention.
+You can also retrieve an Access Token semi-automatically. If you use this process you have to use both dialogs in JOSM and the OSM website launched in an external browser to create and authorise the Access Token. In contrast to the fully automatic process you never have to enter your OSM username or your OSM password into a JOSM dialog. This process is therefore suitable for a user which - for whatever reason - never wants to use their OSM password outside of the secure login page of the OSM website. The fully automatic process runs exactly the same steps that would run manually in the semi-automatic process, just without your intervention.