CHAPTER 11

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OAuth 2.0 Using Live Connect API

WS-* (pronounced WS-STAR) is the name used to refer collectively to the specifications built for SOAP-based web services. One such specification is WS-Trust, which provides a framework for requesting, issuing, and validating security tokens. I covered WS-Trust in Chapter 7. Another member of the WS-* family is WS-Security, a specification that describes how to include security tokens in SOAP messages to be presented by the client application to the web service as credentials for authentication and authorization. WS-Trust and WS-Security in combination provide a standard way for a client application ...

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