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OAuth, "It's complicated." (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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What Is the Front Channel and the Back Channel?

The front channel is the idea of, instead of an t t p request from a client to a server, we're oin to have two pieces of soft ware exchange data through the user's browser. The important one is on the way back, where the oobservers trying to deliver the axis token back to the application. Back channel would be secure and incripted in transit, and you can trust the response that comes back. But i like to think of this as sending a letter in the mail where i'm tring to send you a message, but I don't have a way to go and walk up to you to give it to you. Once once the mail has

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