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OAuth 2 in Action
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OAuth 2 in Action

by Justin Richer, Antonio Sanso
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 44m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 6. OAuth 2.0 in the real world

This chapter covers

  • Using different OAuth grant types for different situations
  • Dealing with native web and browser-based applications
  • Handling secrets at configuration time and runtime

So far in this book, we’ve covered OAuth 2.0 in a fairly idealized state. All the applications look the same, all the resources look the same, and everybody does things the same way. Our extensive example in chapter 2 covered the authorization grant protocol, using a web application with a client secret. All of our exercises in chapters 3, 4, and 5 have made use of the same setup.

Making simplifying assumptions like this is a good way to learn about the fundamentals of a system, but of course the applications we all build ...

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