OAuth 2.0 Cookbook

Efficiently integrate OAuth 2.0 to protect your mobile, desktop, Cloud applications and APIs using Spring Security technologies.

Key Features

• Interact with public OAuth 2.0 protected APIs such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google.
• Use Spring Security and Spring Security OAuth2 to implement your own OAuth 2.0 provider
• Learn how to implement OAuth 2.0 native mobile clients for Android applications

Book Description

What you will learn

• Use Redis and relational databases to store issued access tokens and refresh tokens
• Access resources protected by the OAuth2 Provider using Spring Security
• Implement a web application that dynamically registers itself to the Authorization Server
• Improve the safety of your mobile client using dynamic client registration
• Protect your Android client with Proof Key for Code Exchange
• Protect the Authorization Server from invalid redirection

Who this book is for

This book targets software engineers and security experts who are looking to develop their skills in API security and OAuth 2.0. Prior programming knowledge and a basic understanding of developing web applications are necessary. As this book's recipes mostly use Spring Security and Spring Security OAuth2, some prior experience with Spring Framework will be helpful.