OAuth2 in 8 Steps
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Learn OAuth2 and master the art of integrating it with social media sites like Facebook and Google Plus. Discover the main grant types, authentication, handling expired tokens, and more. Enhance security and tighten your application’s integration.
What you’ll be learning
OAuth2: that mystical beast that you kind of understand and occasionally wrestle to integrate with some social media site.
Time to master OAuth2… and why not do it by building a real app with farmers, chickens and real-life providers like Facebook and Google Plus. We’ll show you how OAuth really works while looking at how OAuth will feel by using SDK’s and other tools that give you shortcuts.
And like always, we’ll go directly at the ugly details, like token expiration and having a user deny access to your application. Here’s what you’ll be learning:
3 main OAuth grant types: client credentials, authorization code and implicit
The exact flow behind getting your application authorized, exchanging an authorization code for a token, and using the token
Authentication (single sign-on) using OAuth
Handling expired tokens
Using refresh tokens
Integrating and authentication with Facebook
OAuth integration with Google+
What to look out for with security and how you can tighten things.
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