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Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation

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On 28/03/2012 1:18 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article
> <7909491.0.1332826232743.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbim5>,
>   Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OAuth 2.0 is still in draft status (draft 25 is the current one I believe)
>> and yes, unfortunately every single server available at this point have
>> varying degrees of separation from the actual spec. It's not a
>> pseudo-standard, it's just not observed to the letter. Google is the closest
>> and Facebook seems to be the farthest away (Stack Exchange is in close second
>> due to building theirs to work like Facebook's).
>
> In practice, OAuth is all about getting your site to work with Facebook.
> That is all most web sites care about today because that's where the
> money is.  The fact that other sites also use OAuth is of mostly
> academic interest at this point.
>
> The next player on the list is Twitter, and they're not even up to using
> their own incompatible version of OAuth 2.0.  They're still using OAuth
> 1.0 (although, I understand, they're marching towards 2.0).

Almost all "social" or "sharing" sites implement OAuth - either 1.0 or 
2.0.  Facebook is clearly the big winner here but not the only player. 
It's also used extensively by google (eg, even their SMTP server 
supports using OAuth credentials to send email)

I'd go even further - most sites which expose an API use OAuth for 
credentials with that API.

Mark

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OAuth 2.0 implementation Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 19:42 -0700
  Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-27 14:11 +1100
    Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-03-26 23:30 -0400
      Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-27 14:49 +1100
        Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-03-26 23:57 -0400
          Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-27 15:24 +1100
            Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Jack Diederich <jackdied@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 01:24 -0400
            Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 22:30 -0700
              Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-03-27 10:18 -0400
                Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 10:54 -0700
                Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 14:42 +1100
    Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net> - 2012-03-27 16:59 +0700
    Socket Error : Address still in use  (Conveting from python 1.5.2 to 2.7.1) Wong Wah Meng-R32813 <r32813@freescale.com> - 2012-03-27 09:41 +0000
    Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Roland Hedberg <roland@catalogix.se> - 2012-03-27 15:36 +0200
  Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-07-05 07:06 -0700
    Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 01:19 +1000
      Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-07-05 10:48 -0700
      Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-07-05 10:48 -0700
        Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 08:38 -0700
        Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 08:38 -0700
          Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2012-07-07 04:41 +1000
          RE: OAuth 2.0 implementation "Demian Brecht" <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 11:49 -0700
          Re: OAuth 2.0 implementation Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2012-07-07 04:58 +1000

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