Google Analytics programmatically simple login

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A question about security, using Google Data API to access the Google Analytics data. I'm going to use this code on my site:

AnalyticsService asv = new AnalyticsService("");
asv.setUserCredentials(CLIENT_USERNAME, CLIENT_PASS);

Is it secure? Will username and password be send by plain text? Sorry for my bad english.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 27 '12 at 03:45

If you access Google Data API through https, your credentials will not be sent as plain text.

You can see Google's example here, check line 87 where the URL is defined:

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Here is the link to my c# code for v3 of the api as part of that post answers Automated use of google-api-dotnet-client with OAuth 2.0

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Sep 27 '12 at 22:37

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