13 Apr, 2010
My mini OAuth resource compendium
Posted by Bhavin Turakhia
We are beginning implementation of OAuth in one of our projects. I just finished reading up a ton of resources. In the end I only needed to readup a few. Here they are in the recommended order -
- http://hueniverse.com/oauth/ – The best layman explanation of how OAuth works – strongly recommended resource. Read every section.
- http://oauth.net/ – The official OAuth site, contains the protocol specifications
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-10 – The latest spec
- http://oauth.net/code/ – Links to ready OAuth libraries in every language
OAuth is a fairly simple protocol, especially if you are familiar with the basics of HTTP, nonce, basic encryption/digital signatures etc.
Following presentation explains OAuth well in small logical sections !
It has a bonus intro to OEmbed too
http://www.slideshare.net/leahculver/o-auth-oembednyc09
One can read http://hueniverse.com/oauth/ later to digest the topic.
Would OAuth and such lead to large collabration frameworks.. Twitter is coming with one such called @anywhere http://blog.twitter.com/2010/03/anywhere.html