Wednesday, January 9, 2013

3-legged OAuth flow

I'm going to explain about behavior of 3-legged OAuth in simple way.

Just look at this.

3-legged OAuth

Lets think one of web applications call MyApp need to access my Facebook photos.
In this example: Resource Owner - me, Consumer - MyApp, Service Provider - Facebook.

Now try to compare this example with above explained scenarios.

1. - MyApp request temporary token form Facebook.
2. - Facebook give the temporary token to MyApp.
3. - MyApp will redirect to the Facebook login page to Autorize the Token.
4. - Me login to the Facebook and Grant access to MyApp
5. - Conform about Authorization to Me
6. - MyApp Request Access Token from Facebook.
7. - Facebook issue Access Token
8. - Request to Access the photos in my Facebook account.
9. - Issue the protected photos.

This is another simple example find out from Google

oauth_graph

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