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Blog: PSN-Login working again plus support for Facebook login

2011-07-06 20:23:04

You may have noticed, that Sony closed their PSN login for external websites. No PS3 fanpage can currently log you in through that page to access your trophies.

I tried to contact Sony through mail, twitter, facebook and their forums but got no reply at all. So I decided to work around this and implement two different ways for you to give PS3Heroes access to that precious PSN sessionId....

The whole process for updating your trophies mainly stays the same. But you now can choose wether you enter the PSN login data on a secure PS3Heroes website so that the server can do the login in the background. Or you log in to the PSN manually and give PS3Heroes the sessionId by copy & paste. The whole process should be self-explaining. At least that's what I hope :)

Sony shut down the PSN login, while I was adding support for Facebook login. I now finished it and thus you're now able to use you Facebook login to access PS3Heroes. When you use it the first time, you will need to log in to PSN, so that the correct PSN-ID can be assigned.

And as a small addition, you now can add a Google+ account t o your PS3Heroes profile :)

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  1. guld_goaguld_goa
    2011-07-06 20:28:15
    Thank you, for the work you put on this, hey could we try of contact sony as a group to help this comunity
  2. dirk_olbertzdirk_olbertz
    2011-07-06 20:31:24
    I'm invited to a sony event on July 21st (it's a Move-Event in Cologne, Germany) and I hope to get some answers there.

    If you have any contacts to Sony, I would be glad if you contact them. I posted to the official german Playstation forum and got a couple of users to support me there, but I got none response from Sony.

    I am also in contact with some other PS3 fanpages, but they also got no responses. I tend to believe that Sony just doesn't care...
  3. ParanoimiaParanoimia
    2011-07-06 20:44:15
    I'm guessing they disabled this as part of the ongoing security measures after the hack. It's sad, but if it's necessary, so be it.

    Of course, if they'd implement a proper API, it wouldn't be an issue. Maybe when PS Vita arrives, since it's portable and they're claiming full PSN integration, they'll get something worthwhile up and running.

    They really need to get their heads together and get something working. The EU site is always up-to-date with Trophy info, but has no public profile pages; the US site has public pages, but the Trophy data is never up-to-date. A bit of a farce, really.
  4. dirk_olbertzdirk_olbertz
    2011-07-06 20:45:59
    Securitywise the solution is now more insecure, as people enter their PSN credentials on sites that are not from Sony. And that happens on all the major PS3 fansites right now! Stupid!
  5. A1r4l3xA1r4l3x
    2011-07-06 20:55:06
    So that was it... Hehe keep up the good work :)
  6. MaverickXSMaverickXS
    2011-07-06 21:31:30
    Great work as always!
  7. dirk_olbertzdirk_olbertz
    2011-07-06 22:26:00
    Thank you guys!
  8. SurpassingStarSurpassingStar
    2011-07-07 10:01:05
    Really awesome! \(^-^)/
  9. IamusbeejusIamusbeejus
    2011-07-10 06:43:30
    Now I can stop relentlessly F5ing hoping to see my new trophies added. Thanks for taking away the anxiety dirk ;) Good work :)
  10. MissSouthamptonMissSouthampton
    2011-07-11 17:21:44
    Wow! Amazing work.
  11. AceSoloMcCloudAceSoloMcCloud
    2011-07-13 13:42:49
    I'm from other ps3 fanpages, including my own in development, this is such a pain Sony have done this, given that it's happened after their systems are online after their downtime, I think it's more down to the load we're putting on their servers by using their system for logins than any security issue.

    As you say, it's now less secure for PS3 gamers as they now have to trust the sites they're puttng their login details into, unless they do the manual method to get the sessionid. By the way, you might want to make it clear in your blog post that the login credential is used immediately and then discarded, it's not stored on your site. Otherwise that opens up a whole other can of worms.

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