The App keeps asking for permission to "Have offline access", why?

oauth-2.0 google-oauth
jayarjo picture jayarjo · Jan 13, 2014 · Viewed 20.7k times · Source

After having authorized the app with oAuth2 and acquiring permissions for requested scopes, I still get a screen asking if I grant the app permission to Have offline access, each time I try to login with Google oAuth2. Isn't it something that shouldn't appear again, once I grant it permission to have it?

enter image description here

Answer

Deepak Mittal picture Deepak Mittal · Jul 23, 2014

This prompt could come because of two parameters,

  • access_type (if it is 'offline')
  • approval_prompt (if it is 'force')

make sure you have set access_type to 'online' and apporoval_prompt to 'auto'

 $client->setAccessType('online');
 $client->setApprovalPrompt('auto') ;

Related questions

Using Postman to access OAuth 2.0 Google APIs

I am trying to access Proximity Google API using Postman chrome app. I have followed tutorials on postman and google dev website but I'm still getting 401 error message. What am I doing? Step 1 - Enable Proximity API: In order to …

Read More
OAuth2 and Google API: access token expiration time?

We have a standalone Java application (see "Installed application") which runs periodically and uses Google API (updates some information from customer databases/ldap/...). To access Google APIs we store username and password in configuration file, which is a security risk …

Read More
Why do access tokens expire?

I am just getting started working with Google API and OAuth2. When the client authorizes my app I am given a "refresh token" and a short lived "access token". Now every time the access token expires, I can POST my …

Read More