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Mastering OAuth 2.0

Mastering OAuth 2.0

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Mastering OAuth 2.0

Mastering OAuth 2.0

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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 (17 chapters)
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11. Tooling and Troubleshooting
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Index

Let's build it!


We have all the theory now. We know how to make the authorization request, and we know the structure of the two types of responses we can expect (success or error). Let's build it in our sample application!

Build the base application

Since we are using the implicit grant workflow, which is intended for client-side usage, our application requirements are quite simple. We do not require a backend server to facilitate the calls. So, for this version of WMIIG, we will build a simple web application using HTML and JavaScript to make the calls and interpret the responses. We will be using Apache Maven to facilitate the creation and running of our application.

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What is Apache Maven?

Maven is a build automation and software management tool for Java projects. It can perform a variety of tasks, including execution of goals to build, test, and package your application. In 2003, it was voted on and accepted as a top-level project for the Apache Software Foundation. Since then, it has...

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