Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “OAuth”
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u1ftp: a demonstration of the Ubuntu One API
One of the projects I've been working on has been to improve aspects of the Ubuntu One Developer Documentation web site. While there are still some layout problems we are working on, it is now in a state where it is a lot easier for us to update.
I have been working on updating our authentication/authorisation documentation and revising some of the file storage documentation (the API used by the mobile Ubuntu One clients).
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Thoughts on OAuth
I've been playing with OAuth a bit lately. The OAuth specification fulfills a role that some people saw as a failing of OpenID: programmatic access to websites and authenticated web services. The expectation that OpenID would handle these cases seems a bit misguided since the two uses cases are quite different:
OpenID is designed on the principle of letting arbitrary OpenID providers talk to arbitrary relying parties and vice versa. OpenID is intentionally vague about how the provider authenticates the user.