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OAuth 2.0: Getting Started In API Security (API-University Series Book 1)
This book offers an introduction to API security with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. In less than 50 pages you will gain an overview of the capabilities of OAuth. You will learn the core concepts of OAuth. You will get to know all four OAuth flows that are used in cloud solutions and mobile apps.If you have tried to read the official OAuth specification, you may get the impression that OAuth is complex. This book explains OAuth in simple terms. The different OAuth flows are visualized graphically using sequence diagrams. The diagrams allow you to see the big picture of the various OAuth interactions. This high-level overview is complemented with rich set of example requests and responses and an explanation of the technical details.In the book the challenges and benefits of OAuth are presented, followed by an explanation of the technical concepts of OAuth. The technical concepts include the actors, endpoints, tokens and the four OAuth flows. Each flow is described in detail, including the use cases for each flow. Extensions of OAuth are presented, such as OpenID Connect and the SAML2 Bearer Profile.Who should read this book?You do not have the time to read long books? This book provides an overview, the core concepts, without getting lost in the small-small details. This book provides all the necessary information to get started with OAuth in less than 50 pages.You believe OAuth is complicated? OAuth may seem complex with flows and redirects going back and forth. This book will give you clarity by introducing the seemingly complicated material by many illustrations. These illustrations clearly show all the involved interaction parties and the messages they exchange.You want to learn the OAuth concepts efficiently? This book uses many illustrations and sequence diagrams. A good diagram says more than 1000 words.You want to learn the difference between OAuth and OpenID Connect? You wonder when the two concepts are used, what they have in common and what is different between them. This book will help you answer this question.You want to use OAuth in your mobile app? If you want to access resources that are protected by OAuth, you need to get a token first, before you can access the resource. For this, you need to understand the OAuth flows and the dependencies between the steps of the flows.You want to use OAuth to protect your APIs? OAuth is perfectly suited to protect your APIs. You can learn which OAuth endpoints need to be provided and which checks need to be made within the protected APIs.
File Size: 8045 KB
Print Length: 86 pages
Publication Date: November 14, 2014
Sold by:  Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00PO2BJ4K
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Best Sellers Rank: #211,117 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)   #65 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development & Design > Web Services   #244 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > Two hours or more (65-100 pages) > Computers & Technology   #285 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Computers & Technology > Networking > Networks, Protocols & API's
I bought this book from  directly and never saw it "live" in a bookstore. My warning - it is a very small book. It's 70 pages long, but the font is huge and most of the pages are half empty. They really tried to make it look bigger at least at the first glance - didn't help, though.The content is OK, but you can read a Wikipedia article on OAuth instead of this book. It should have been a chapter in a book on security; by itself it looked like a joke when I got it in the mail.I am giving it 3 stars, not less, because, once again, the content is OK and it does give you OAuth overview. No code examples, just diagrams and HTTP requests, but that was enough for me. However, I still feel a bit stupid for actually paying money on something I could read up on the Internet for free.
Excellent review of the underlying components of OAuth, and the methods of deploying and using it. Love the sequence diagrams. The explanations of the differences between the pattern use cases is most helpful.
A clear explanation of OAuth and its authentication flows. It provided great descriptions of the OpenId Connect and SAML2 extensions.
Great little book. I'm tired of slogging through 500+ pages on a subject that I can learn in less than 100.
Brief explanation of OAuth but clear and straightforward.
Nothing you wont find with an online search.
The author makes no attempt to breathe any life into the subject matter. There are free articles on the internet which provide better value. It felt like I got burned on this purchase.
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