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Can someone explain the difference between OAuth 2 and OAuth 1? Is OAuth 1 obsolete now? Should we be implementing OAuth 2? I don't see many implementations of OAuth 2; most are still using OAuth 1, ...

I have two enterprise servers which need to communicate in a secure way, and am comparing using SSL (with client/server certs to validate both sides) vs two-legged authentication using OAuth 2.0 (...

I am writing a REST API in PHP using Symfony2. This API is intended to be used by individual websites to access data and this will be done by a client side library. I need to secure the API however ...

I am building a muli-tenant saas(software as a service) architecture. I have to build the authentication system for the system. From what I have studied, I think I need to the build the ...

I am trying to understand in what scenarios I should be using oauth. From reading the spec, I understand that you are essentially delegating identification to a 3rd party. So if we take the example ...

I have recently started toying with an android application, and I have gotten to the point where I want it to communicate with a web service, I understand completely how to do this in an insecure way, ...

where i will populate a table which has links and each link is pointing to different case id, when click on that link, i need to validate that 3rd party url in my java method and need to allow the ...

Call me a newbie, call me dumb, rate down this topic. Do as you like, I'm just here to ask a question and hopefully learn something from it. So I've been making an API for my website today (well ...

We have been using SOAP services up until this point and we're creating some new services and using REST. We were using a basic user{Guid}/developer key {Guid} authentication in our SOAP headers. So ...

Actually I'm a beginner in node.js so please do excuse me if my question is foolish. Basically I'm sending email by using my gmail account via node-mailer . But now I want to know is it necessary to ...

We intend to create a REST API that will be implemented on 100+ servers for use by a Centralized Management Portal (CMP). This CMP will itself have full access to the API (for scheduled tasks etc.) ...