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How to Go From Zero to Access Token in Under 10 Minutes with Facebook’s OAuth 2.0

By chco : 03 March 2011 - 11:44 AM
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...
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REST in Practice: HTTP Security Essentials

By chco : 29 October 2010 - 09:59 AM
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...
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How to Use Three-Legged OAuth

By adfm : 20 April 2010 - 04:35 PM
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...
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How to secure WebDAV

By Rich Bowen : 01 September 2009 - 11:03 AM
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...
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How to authenticate via public keys

By carlaschroder : 25 August 2009 - 02:30 PM
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...
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