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Google Docs documents can be published on public sites. How does Google know the password to use (to get the document) when all you specify in the HTML is a string like: src="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=..." and no explicit password is used?

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What password are you talking about? The password to your Google account? – Polynomial Jul 5 '12 at 12:30
Yes, I was thinking that google needs an id and a password to grab the document but I was wrong, I think it just uses a document id only. Sorry for your trouble. – Emmad Kareem Jul 5 '12 at 12:44

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The document is set as public, so anyone who has the link can view the file.

Google Docs doesn't need to know your password in order to transmit the document to the person requesting it.

If you'd like to protect the document so that only certain people have access, view the document, then click File -> Share.

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I will give it a try, thanks. – Emmad Kareem Jul 5 '12 at 12:46

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