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This excerpt from Mining the Social Web will help you get up and running with Facebook's OAuth 2.0 implementation. As with any other OAuth-enabled app, to get started you’ll need to acquire an a...
This excerpt from REST in Practice covers HTTP security. A coffee shop called Restbucks is used for the examples.HTTP Authentication and Authorization
As we’ve often seen on the World Wide Web, HTT...
Do you have a web service that you'd like to set up authentication on? OAuth is a popular tool to accomplish this task. In this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Cookbook you'll l...
If you want to allow your users to upload and otherwise manage
their Web documents with WebDAV but without exposing your server to
any additional security risk, require authenticatio...
This will let you use your SSH private-key passphrase instead of your system login, which means your system login is protected, and you can reuse the same public/private key pair for as many remote ho...