Now that we have a clue about calling an OAuth secured service using Javascript, let’s try it again with C#. That way we can do the calling from the server side and not have to worry about exposing our secret key to the browser. This example is using the OAuth libray found at: http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/csharp/OAuthBase.cs. More...

We’ve been working on implementing some sort of enterprise wide single sign-on (SSO) at work. As part of that we really needed some way to authenticate with web services without depending on Windows or Basic Authentication, which is a phenomenal pain in the butt.

Enter OAuth

OAuth is “An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.” In other words, you can authenticate with it from lots of different places. More...