Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0

© Yvonne Wilson, Abhishek Hingnikar  2019

Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5095-2_17

17. Exceptions

Yvonne Wilson¹  and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

—Benjamin Franklin, American founding father, inventor, politician, diplomat, scientist, and printer, from a letter to The Pennsylvania Gazette (1735)

The previous chapters have covered many cases where things happen as expected. There are times, however, when failures occur or things don’t go as planned. Situations involving exceptions require planning to handle them well. Examples include accidentally deleted data, lost phones, system outages, or ...