OAuth

Getting Started

Hueniverse publishes a guide which covers many of the topics needed to understand and implement the protocol and is available in multiple parts.

The Beginner’s Guide to OAuth includes:

Part I: Overview

• Introduction
• End-user Benefits
• Scope
• Specification Structure
• Definitions

Part II: Protocol Workflow

• End-use experience
• Protocol requests

Part III: Security Architecture

• Beyond HTTP Basic Auth
• Direct & Delegated Access
• Credentials
• Signature and Hash
• Secrets Limitations
• Timestamp and Nonce
• Signature Methods
• Signature Base String

Part IV: Signing Requests

• Complete interactive walkthrough on how to sign OAuth requests