Authenticating users to our application

Once a user is successfully authenticated inside LinkedIn, the request will be redirected to our application with the profile details of the user. However, each of these services will provide different types of data, and hence, it's difficult to match them into a common format. As developers, we should be relying on the most basic and common data across all services for OpenAuth login and registrations. Let's understand the process of authentication before moving on to the response handling part:

  1. The user clicks on the LinkedIn link.
  2. The user is redirected to LinkedIn for granting permissions to our application.
  1. The user is redirected back to our application on successful authentication with profile ...

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