April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
178 pages
3h 51m
English
Today, almost everyone owns at least one personal public social media account, such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Recently, it has become really popular for websites to allow their visitors to authenticate themselves via one of their social accounts by just clicking on an icon to bind their social service account to a service-internal automatically generated account.
This approach is very convenient for web users who are usually permanently logged into at least one of their accounts. If they are not currently logged in, clicking on an icon will redirect them to their social service login page, and, after a successful login, another redirection takes place, ensuring that the user gets ...