Why OAuth Exists
The scenario everyone recognizes Your application wants to access a user's data on another service — their Google Calendar, GitHub repositories, or company files in SharePoint. The naive approach: ask
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The scenario everyone recognizes Your application wants to access a user's data on another service — their Google Calendar, GitHub repositories, or company files in SharePoint. The naive approach: ask
Four roles (memorize these) OAuth names four actors. Everything else hangs off them. flowchart TB RO["Resource Owner<br/>(the user)"] AS["Authorization Server<br/>(Keycloak, Okta, Google, Auth