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OAuth 2.0 Cookbook

By : Adolfo Eloy Nascimento
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OAuth 2.0 Cookbook

By: Adolfo Eloy Nascimento

Overview of this book

OAuth 2.0 is a standard protocol for authorization and focuses on client development simplicity while providing specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and so on. This book also provides useful recipes for solving real-life problems using Spring Security and creating Android applications. The book starts by presenting you how to interact with some public OAuth 2.0 protected APIs such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. You will also be able to implement your own OAuth 2.0 provider with Spring Security OAuth2. Next, the book will cover practical scenarios regarding some important OAuth 2.0 profiles such as Dynamic Client Registration, Token Introspection and how to revoke issued access tokens. You will then be introduced to the usage of JWT, OpenID Connect, and how to safely implement native mobile OAuth 2.0 Clients. By the end of this book, you will be able to ensure that both the server and client are protected against common vulnerabilities.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Introduction


Nowadays we have scenarios which demand that applications interact with a large number of services and also provide services by themselves distributed as APIs throughout the network. Despite this, it's common to allow users of our applications to grant permissions to third-party applications, where OAuth 2.0 has proven to be a good option.

In this chapter, you will learn how to create, configure, and distribute an OAuth 2.0 Provider covering distinct scenarios using all the grant types described by the OAuth 2.0 specification, as well as how to use different access token management strategies through relational databases and Redis (a NoSQL database). All the recipes in this chapter will be implemented using Spring Security OAuth2, which at the time of writing this book, was at the 2.2.0.RELEASE version (check the official documentation for Spring Security OAuth2 at http://projects.spring.io/spring-security-oauth/docs/oauth2.html). It's important learning how to configure your...