Can a public IP address be used as Google OAuth redirect URI?

Question

I\'m trying to set a web service that needs the user\'s Google Latitude info, so I\'m using Google OAuth to get the user authorization stuff.

However, when trying to

Answer 1

I ran into this issue too and so I entered a URL with a .com extension and also entered it into my /etc/hosts file. Works like a charm.

It totally sucks that my entire app now has to be developed on an apparently 'live' domain though.