By:Vijay NaikNumaan Ahmed

Overview

• What is OAuth?• Why do we need OAuth?• Architecture• OAuth & Force.com• Connected App Administration• Hands on

Access Resources on Browser

3rd Party App

3rd Party App

Modified Flow

What Is OAuth?

• Open Authorization• Authorization protocol

- To allow 3rd party apps to access data on your behalf- Without revealing the password- Sometime even without presence of the user

• A framework to allow secure API access

Why do we need OAuth?• To allow 3rd party apps to access data on your behalf without

revealing password• Sharing Password is a bad thing• Provide Restricted Access, i.e. allow access to selected

resources• Revoke access without changing password

Steps

• Generate Access Token (Session Id) using OAuth Flow

• Make API calls using Access Token

OAuth Is…

“a process of generating Access Token, without revealing the password”

OAuth & Force.com

Web Server Flow

HTTP Request

Method

Endpoint

Body

Header

Http Request

Grant_Type

Authorization_Code

Consumer_Id

Consumer_Secret_Code

RedirectUri

User Agent Flow

Refresh Token Flow

User Name Password Flow

Connected App Administration

• Setting the scopes• Setup Trusted IP Ranges• Expire Refresh Token• Set Session Policies• Block Apps

Hands On!

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