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RFC 6749
Title: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework
Author: D. Hardt, Ed.
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: October 2012
Mailbox: dick.hardt@gmail.com
Pages: 76
Characters: 163498
Obsoletes: RFC5849
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-oauth-v2-31.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749.txt
The OAuth 2.0 authorization framework enables a third-party
application to obtain limited access to an HTTP service, either on
behalf of a resource owner by orchestrating an approval interaction
between the resource owner and the HTTP service, or by allowing the
third-party application to obtain access on its own behalf. This
specification replaces and obsoletes the OAuth 1.0 protocol described
in RFC 5849. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
This document is a product of the Web Authorization Protocol Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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