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

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Is Pixy a Replacement for a Client Secret?

Pixy is not a replacement for a client secret, and has nothing to do with whether or not you have a client secret. Pixy is useful to make sure that the thing that's requesting the authorization code is the same thing that's cang t be using that authoris agion code later. If you have the ability authenticate the client, then you absolutely should, even if you're doing pixy. So that request for a token is where over the back chanel. That can be authenticated for clients that have credentials, meaning web sever bas taps,. You can do it there as well. Just be per instance authentication of some sort. And that, again,

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