Basically, OAuth is used for authenticate a user to a domain (like your user in Gmail), but without the need to pass your secret information to the page which is asking for that information (like Linkedin does with your Gmail account). It uses authentication tokens to get the information.
Extract from OAuth webpage: OAuth allows you to share your private resources (photos, videos, contact list, bank accounts) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out your username and password. There are many reasons why one should not share their private credentials. Giving your email account password to a social network site so they can look up your friends is the same thing as going to dinner and giving your ATM card and PIN code to the waiter when it's time to pay. Any restaurant asking for your PIN code will go out of business, but when it comes to the web, users put themselves at risk sharing the same private information. OAuth to the rescue. ..... OAuth addresses that by allowing users to hand out tokens instead. Each token grants access to a specific site (a video editing site) for specific resources (just videos from last weekend) and for a defined duration (the next 2 hours). More detailed in: http://oauth.net/documentation/getting-started - End-User Benefits G.- On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:38 AM, ajay singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone explain me in brief what is the use Oauth library in shindig. > What it does and how it does? > > Thanks > Ajay kumar Singh > > >
