The best known third-party authorization protocol nowadays is the 2.0 release of OAuth, also known as OAuth2, which supersedes the former release (OAuth 1 or simply OAuth) originally developed by Blaine Cook and Chris Messina in 2006.
We already talked a lot about it for good reasons; OAuth 2 has quickly become the industry-standard protocol for authorization and is currently used by a gigantic amount of community-based websites and social networks, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter. It basically works like this:
- Whenever an existing user requests a set of permissions to our application via OAuth, we open a transparent connection interface between them and a third-party authorization provider that is trusted ...
