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Asked: 2026-05-16T08:57:51+00:00

I’ve read a bit about it at http://oauth.net/ , it’s a simple way to

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I’ve read a bit about it at http://oauth.net/ , it’s “a simple way to publish and interact with protected data” apparently.

I think it’s exactly what I need to provide a secure way of accessing data from an android/iphone app via a REST web service, but I can’t work out exactly what it is.

So, put simply, what exactly does it do and are there any (really) simple examples of it in action I can follow, preferably implementing something in c# that can be accessed from a smartphone app?

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  1. Editorial Team

    From the link provided by Craig Stuntz:

    Open ID gives you one login for multiple sites. Each time you need to log into Zooomr – a site using Open ID – you will be redirected to your Open ID site where you login, and then back to Zooomr. OAuth lets you authorise one website – the consumer – to access your data from another website – the provider. For instance, you want to authorise a printing provider – call it Moo – to grab your photos from a photo repository – call it Flickr. Moo will redirect you to Flickr which will ask you, for instance, “Moo wants to download your Flickr photos. Is that cool?”, and then back to Moo to print your photos.

    DotNetOpenAuth is a good C# library for Open ID and OAuth.

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