OAuth Terminologies
Explore essential OAuth terminologies to understand the authorization framework. This lesson explains roles like resource owner and client, the purpose of access tokens, authorization grants, and scopes to prepare you for OAuth flow concepts.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Before we look into the exact details about how OAuth works and the various flows of OAuth, let’s go through all the OAuth related terminology. We will refer to the example that we discussed in the previous lesson to understand this technology.
Resource owner
The resource owner is the owner of the resource that is being accessed. When you log in to PicsArt App using your Facebook account, you are granting access to PicsArt to access your images. In this case, you are the resource owner. ...