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Category: Web Engineering
OAuth 2.0 Server Side
I already addressed the complexity of OAuth client-side programming (version 1 and 2) in a previous post. In that post, I talk about how mybiketraffic uses OAuth to authenticate itself on behalf of its users as clients on the Garmin Connect website, which still uses OAuth v1.0, and the Strava website, which uses OAuth v2.0.… Continue reading OAuth 2.0 Server Side
a tale of complexity
Let me tell you a tale – a tale of magic and power. Ok, maybe there isn’t any real magic to this other than the magic described by Arthur Clarke in this quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” My reference to power is in the sense of what you as a third… Continue reading a tale of complexity
Server-Sent Events
One of the HTML5 features introduced that I have not needed until now is something called “server-sent events“. It’s a strange name which I think is derived from the HTTP content-type text/event-stream which must be set on the server side script generating the events. This isn’t quite the same as web push notifications which are… Continue reading Server-Sent Events