Hi Dani, AFAIK OAuth 2.0 supports 3 flavours: Server side apps, client side apps and installed apps. Does Daniweb Oauth allow OOB in the redirect_uri which is part of the support for installed/standalone apps? If no, are you expecting desktop app writers to spawn a local web server and use the serverside flow?
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Jump to PostI, personally, am a web developer with no desktop application experience. As a result, there is no native support for OAuth with installed apps. It would be great if you could point me to some examples on the correct method to handle installed apps and I'll defintely look into it.
Jump to PostIn the document you linked me to, it specifies that, "This flow requires that the application has access to the system browser or the ability to embed a browser control in the application."
The method outlined on that page would work with our existing serverside implementation.
Jump to PostOooh I see what you mean by OOB. We currently only support the redirect uri being an http://localhost port. Is there a need to expand this to support the other method as well?
Jump to PostI had something else already on the todo list for today but I'll try to tackle this as well!
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Now the problem is that the OAuth provider would try redirecting to this address which would fail.
Are you not able to simply send an HTTP request and then capture the header information that is returned? The information that you need is tacked on as …
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