Edge Cases

A Zeno's Paradox of Authentication

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about practical OAuth: how it works, tips and tricks about how to integrate it into your apps, and the ups and downs of version 2.0.

Links:

• Starsky and Hutch « Wikipedia
• OAuth « Wikipedia
• Episode 76: This Should Be Bonus Money « Core Intuition
• mattgemmell/MGTwitterEngine « GitHub
• RFC 5849 - The OAuth 1.0 Protocol « Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• OAuth Community Site
• OAuth Authentication Flow Diagram
• Zeno’s paradoxes « Wikipedia
• xAuth « Twitter Developers
• rentzsch/OAuthConsumer « GitHub
• OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell « hueniverse
• OAuth Bearer Tokens are a Terrible Idea « hueniverse

Rejected Episode Titles:

• The Grumpier Side of Software Development
• I Was Expecting Starsky and Hutch to Come Sooner Rather Than Later
• I’m American, I Don’t Know Anything
• There Was an Hour Where It Went Haywire
• Matt Gemmel’s MGTwitterEngine of Yore
• Back When the World Was Wonderful
• A Session Fixation Bug
• Hexadecimal Jokes Are the Worst
• Here You Go, These Are the Keys to the Car
• Asking Permission to Ask Permission
• Hoping That Everything’s OK
• In Your Little Web View
• The Primitive, Obvious Way to Do It
• Call Me, and I Know How to Handle It
• This Random String You Don’t Look Too Closely At
• Web Views Are Very Hungry to Be Dropped Onto
• Refrigerators Are Tweeting Now
• Finally Embrace Our Web View Overlords
• I Recommend Checking Out My Little Fork
• Their Scope Got Bigger
• Done by Writing in the Sky Using Your Little Biplane That Shoots Clouds out Its Rear
• Vendors Can Later On Come and Plug Their Holes
• There’s a Lot of Money Involved When Things Are Open to Interpretation
• We’ve Been Swearing Throughout the Podcast
• This Is Going to Be a Lot of Pain
• Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Security Basket
• Apple Lawyers, You Didn’t Hear Anybody Say That on This Podcast
• Time Is Weird to Me