OAuth Protocol - Fluid Topics - 3.7

Fluid Topics Integration Guide
Operating system
RHEL
Category
Reference Guides
Audience
public
Version
3.7

OAuth is a very popular Internet authorization protocol. It is frequently used by major Internet companies such as social networks.

In Fluid Topics, OAuth is used as an authentication mechanism whereas it is actually an authorization protocol. In fact, Fluid Topics:

  • asks the authorization to retrieve user's identity
  • calls the web service able to provide user's identity (the OAuth protocol does not cover this operation).