Advanced OAuth
Wrangling
Kellan Elliott-McCrea
XTech 2008: The Web on the Move

Assumptions

Advanced, simple, and flexible.
(choose two)

OAuth?
http://oauth.net/core/1.0

OAuth is ....
... a protocol for developing
password less APIs.

OAuth is ....
... a way for an application to interact with an
API on a user’s behalf without knowing the
user’s authentication credentials.

OAuth is ....
... an open, freely-implementable and generic
methodology for API authorization.

OAuth is ....
... “your valet key for the Web.”

OAuth is ....
... not OpenID.

OAuth is ....
... not OpenID.
(OpenID does