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OAuth Protocol

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OAuth Protocol OAuth stands for Open Authentication . It lets an HTTP client and a HTTP server to prove their identity to one another. There are 7 steps in this protocol(set of rules) as follows:- OAuth: The client makes a request and appends a request_token variable to the HTTP request The server takes the request_token and sends it to the client in then HTTP response The client takes the request_token receive fron the server and matches it with its own request_token and if both match the client knows that the server is the one who claims it to be The client makes another HTTP request with the same request_token The server receives the request_token and matches it with the previous request of request_token and if it matches, the server sends another variable caled the access_token to the client. The client in the next HTTP request sends this access_token In this last ste...