OAuth Grant Types

Application Security

The OAuth 2.0 Flows – Part II

In the previous post, we learnt about main actors and terminologies used in OAuth 2.0. We started discussing about grant types (OAuth flows) and talked about most used grant type i.e. authorization code grant. In this post we will discuss remaining three types of grants. Let’s start – 2. Implicit grant The implicit grant type…

Application Security

The OAuth 2.0 Flows – Part I

The OAuth 2.0 framework is a delegation protocol specifically designed for authorization workflows. In this post, we will try to understand different flows (OAuth grant types) for clients to obtain the authorization grant. OAuth 2.0 Roles and Terminologies Let us revisit few important OAuth terminologies and entities involved in the workflows. OAuth defines four major…