> As I understand OAuth2 now it's primairly used for users that want to grant access to multiple applications to use data from their personal account on, ie. Facebook.
OAuth2 has many different use cases and that is one of them. It is a common misconception that OAuth2 is *only* used for that. See http://soabits.blogspot.dk/2014/02/api-authentication-considerations-and.htmlfor a discussion of the various problems with unique/API keys and how OAuth2 solves them. /Jørn On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Danny Haberer <eaglecor...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a general question wether I should use OAuth2 or not and I hope > someone is able to help us make the correct decision. > > This is my situation: > We have clients login to our website. From that login they can request > (personal) information which comes from a second database. This is > (ofcourse) API based. > > Only clients from our website are allowed access to the second database. > Is OAuth 2 the best method for this or should we use an unique string as > key and have this as verification (unique string can be a combination of > unique client information; encrypted). > > As I understand OAuth2 now it's primairly used for users that want to > grant access to multiple applications to use data from their personal > account on, ie. Facebook. > Since we already "know" the clients username and password (although it's > stored encrypted) I believe we can do without OAuth. > > I'm looking forward to your suggestions and ideas. > > Best regards, > > Danny > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OAuth" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
