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This excerpt from Mining the Social Web will help you get up and running with Facebook's OAuth 2.0 implementation. As with any other OAuth-enabled app, to get started you’ll need to acquire an a...
Introduction
When Twitter shut down HTTP basic authentication as a means of access to its API, the elmcity service -- which uses that API as described in The power of informal contracts -- had to...
Do you have a web service that you'd like to set up authentication on? OAuth is a popular tool to accomplish this task. In this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Cookbook you'll l...