OAuth ~ Introduction - rohit120582sharma/Documentation GitHub Wiki

OAuth (Open Authorization) is an authorization protocol. It is an approach to user authentication.

Uses 3rd party services like Facebook, Google+, GutHub etc. A third party application can use it to access user data from a site (like Google or Twitter) without revealing their password.

Advantages

  • No forms to fill in to sign up to website
  • Don't have many different account to remember password for
  • Just a few central identities (FB, G+ etc) you can use to login anywhere


OAuth Flow


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