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_9

9. Sample Application with Custom API

Yvonne Wilson¹  and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

—Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computers, as quoted in “The Guts of a New Machine,” New York Times Magazine

The past chapters covered how certain identity protocols provide a solution for authentication, API authorization, and application authorization. Now we can bring together the topics from the past few chapters and describe a sample program that solves typical identity challenges using these protocols, ...