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Mastering OAuth 2.0

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Mastering OAuth 2.0

Overview of this book

OAuth 2.0 is a powerful authentication and authorization framework that has been adopted as a standard in the technical community. Proper use of this protocol will enable your application to interact with the world's most popular service providers, allowing you to leverage their world-class technologies in your own application. Want to log your user in to your application with their Facebook account? Want to display an interactive Google Map in your application? How about posting an update to your user's LinkedIn feed? This is all achievable through the power of OAuth. With a focus on practicality and security, this book takes a detailed and hands-on approach to explaining the protocol, highlighting important pieces of information along the way. At the beginning, you will learn what OAuth is, how it works at a high level, and the steps involved in creating an application. After obtaining an overview of OAuth, you will move on to the second part of the book where you will learn the need for and importance of registering your application and types of supported workflows. You will discover more about the access token, how you can use it with your application, and how to refresh it after expiration. By the end of the book, you will know how to make your application architecture robust. You will explore the security considerations and effective methods to debug your applications using appropriate tools. You will also have a look at special considerations to integrate with OAuth service providers via native mobile applications. In addition, you will also come across support resources for OAuth and credentials grant.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering OAuth 2.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
Tooling and Troubleshooting
Index

Reference pages


Use these pages as reference documentation when implementing the authorization code grant flow in your application. Adapted from The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework specification [RFC 6749].

An overview of the authorization code grant flow

Figure 3 from RFC 6749

The steps are as follows:

  • A: The client application initiates the flow by sending the user's user-agent to the appropriate authorization endpoint.

  • B: The authentication server of the service provider authenticates the resource owner and attempts to gain consent by presenting the user consent form.

  • C: Assuming the user grants consent, the authorization server redirects the user back to the client application via the redirection endpoint provided in the authorization request. The redirection endpoint will include an authorization code and any state provided by the client.

  • D: The client requests an access token from the service provider's token endpoint by including the authorization code received in the previous step...