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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition
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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition

by Valentin Bojinov
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
178 pages
3h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Passport's OAuth Strategy

OAuth is an open standard for third party authorization, it defines a delegation protocol used fer authorizing against a third party authentication providers. OAuth uses special tokens, once issued,  identify the user instead of user credentials. Let's look closer at OAuth workflow, with a sample scenario. The main actors in the scenario are - a user interacting with a web application, which consumes a restful service from a back-end system  providing some kind of data. The web application delegates its authorization to a separate third-party authorization server.

  1. The user requests a web application which requires ...
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