Contents tagged with OAuth
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OAuth in action – Linq2Twitter
The other day I came across a pretty cool project, Linq2Twitter, that basically implements a linq provider for consuming the Twitter REST Api. This project is not only interesting because it provides an intuitive model for incorporating Twitter calls into any existing application, but also because it shows how to use the OAuth authentication mode that the Twitter Api supports.
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Webcast "OpenID, OAuth y Live ID. Cual es la diferencia ?
El proximo miercoles 20 de mayo a las 3 PM (GMT-05:00 Colombia, Panama), voy a estar presentando un MSDN webcast acerca de OpenID, OAuth y Windows Live ID. El evento va a ser transmitido en castellano para la comunidad de latinoamerica, y se va a enfocar en las caracteristicas principales de estas soluciones/protocolos, como funcionan, y algunos escenarios en donde se pueden aplicar con exito.
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Some thoughts on OpenID and OAuth for Desktop clients
OpenID and OAuth are today excellent solutions for "Single Sign On" (SSO) and "Authorization Delegation" respectively. They are, however, based on Http Redirections and therefore, tied to passive clients or commonly called web browsers.
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Addressing authorization with OAuth or the .NET Access Control Service
OAuth
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Using the WCF OAuth channel with an ADO.NET service
As I promised in my previous post "OAuth Channel for WCF RESTful services", it is now time to show this new channel in action with a real service. To make this sample more interesting, I decided to base this implementation on an ADO.NET service that provides information about contacts.
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OAuth channel for WCF RESTful services
While OpenID and WS-Federation focus on delegating user identity (or a collection of identity claims), OAuth was designed to address a different and complementary scenario, the delegation of user authorization. In few words, OAuth allows a client application to obtain user consent (as access tokens) for executing operations over private resources on his behalf.