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Solving “This website has not registered with Google to establish a secure connection for authorization requests”

I recently ran into an ominous warning on the Google Contacts Access Request landing page.

After some googling, the solution is to register the requesting domain and upload a self-signed X.509 certificate.

Once completed, I retried the request and got a slightly less threatening warning.

The solution was to add two additional parameters to the request: secure=1 and a signature. Fortunately, I found how to generate the signature in the google-authsub gem. A few minutes later, I added support for signing AuthSub requests to Mislav’s contacts library and got the results I wanted. Commit.

Update: I got it wrong about appending the signature to the parameter. I posted a follow up on how to correctly perform signed AuthSub requests in Ruby.