Getting Started
The Beginner’s Guide to OAuth published by Hueniverse covers many of the topics needed to understand and implement the protocol and is available in multiple parts:
- Introduction
- End-user Benefits
- Scope
- Specification Structure
- Definitions
- End-use experience
- Protocol requests
Part III: Security Architecture
- Beyond HTTP Basic Auth
- Direct & Delegated Access
- Credentials
- Signature and Hash
- Secrets Limitations
- Timestamp and Nonce
- Signature Methods
- Signature Base String
- Complete interactive walkthrough on how to sign OAuth requests