Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) E. Hammer-Lahav, Ed.
Request for Comments: 5849 April 2010
Category: Informational
ISSN: 2070-1721
The OAuth 1.0 Protocol
Abstract
OAuth provides a method for clients to access server resources on
behalf of a resource owner (such as a different client or an end-
user). It also provides a process for end-users to authorize third-
party access to their server resources without sharing their
credentials (typically, a username and password pair), using user-
agent redirections.
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