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BCP 212
RFC 8252
Title: OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps
Author: W. Denniss,
J. Bradley
Status: Best Current Practice
Stream: IETF
Date: October 2017
Mailbox: rfc8252@wdenniss.com,
rfc8252@ve7jtb.com
Pages: 21
Characters: 49680
Updates: RFC 6749
See Also: BCP 212
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-oauth-native-apps-12.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8252
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8252
OAuth 2.0 authorization requests from native apps should only be made
through external user-agents, primarily the user's browser. This
specification details the security and usability reasons why this is
the case and how native apps and authorization servers can implement
this best practice.
This document is a product of the Web Authorization Protocol Working Group of the IETF.
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