{"id":9573,"date":"2013-03-22T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9573"},"modified":"2013-03-22T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:17:30","slug":"oauth-a-great-way-to-cripple-your-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9573","title":{"rendered":"OAuth &#8211; A great way to cripple your API"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Even the original social networking sites behind OAuth decided they really need other options for different use-cases, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.twitter.com\/docs\/oauth\/xauth\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter&#8217;s xAuth,<\/a> or Yahoo offering <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/messenger\/guide\/chapterdirectoauth.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Direct OAuth<\/i><\/a>, which turns the entire scheme into a more complicated version of HTTP Basic Authentication, with no added benefits. Perhaps the most damaging point against OAuth, is that the original designer behind it decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/hueniverse.com\/2012\/07\/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\">remove his name from the specification, and is washing his hands clean of it<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/insanecoding.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/oauth-great-way-to-cripple-your-api.html\">Insane Coding: OAuth &#8211; A great way to cripple your API<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the original social networking sites behind OAuth decided they really need other options for different use-cases, such as Twitter&#8217;s xAuth, or Yahoo offering Direct OAuth, which turns the entire scheme into a more complicated version of HTTP Basic Authentication, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[173,414,101,44],"class_list":["post-9573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-api","tag-authentication","tag-security","tag-web-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}