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.