OAuth 2 in Action

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About this Book

This e-book is meant to be a complete and thorough remedy of the OAuth 2.0 protocol and plenty of of its surrounding applied sciences, together with OpenID Connect and JOSE/JWT. We need you to come back away from this e-book with a deep understanding of what OAuth can do, why it really works the best way that it does, and deploy it correctly and securely in an unsafe web.

The goal reader for this e-book is somebody who’s most likely used OAuth 2.0, or at the very least heard of it, however doesn’t actually know the way it works or why it really works that means. Maybe you’ve even developed a number of OAuth 2.0 elements, corresponding to a consumer to speak to a selected API, however you’re interested by other forms of purchasers, or different elements of the OAuth 2.0 ecosystem. Perhaps you surprise, ‘What’s the authorization server doing if you go ask for that authorization code, anyway?’ Or maybe you’re tasked with defending an API and also you need to know if OAuth 2.0 is basically going to do the job, and in that case, how are you speculated to handle that? Maybe in your day job you’re constructing a consumer, however you need to know what the protected useful resource does with that token you despatched it. Or possibly you’re constructing and defending an API, however you need to know what the authorization server you’re speaking to does to get these tokens into the suitable place. We need you to grasp what the software, OAuth 2.0, is basically good at and how one can wield it successfully.

We’re going to imagine you already know the fundamentals of how HTTP works, and at the very least perceive the utility of encrypting connections utilizing TLS, if not the intimate particulars of the way it works. Our code is all in JavaScript, however this isn’t a e-book about JavaScript, and so we’ve performed our greatest to clarify the abstractions and performance that the code itself represents so to apply it to your personal platform and language.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; 1st version (March 18, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 161729327X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1617293276
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.34 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches