[OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2 flow diagrams

"Anganes, Amanda L" <aanganes@mitre.org> Fri, 03 February 2012 14:24 UTC

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Hello,

I've developed a set of flow diagrams for the OAuth 2.0 spec, with separate diagrams for the Access Code, Implicit Grant, Resource Owner Password Credentials, and the Client Credentials flows. These were inspired by the diagrams for 1.0 and 1.0a that Idan Gazit posted in http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg00696.html, which Justin Richer pointed me to when I first started trying to read and understand the OAuth2.0 spec. I find these types of diagrams to be incredibly useful, so I updated them again to (hopefully) reflect the 2.0 spec.

I'd appreciate any comments/corrections. If anyone finds the diagrams to be useful, please feel free to rehost or reference them.

https://github.com/jricher/OpenID-Connect-Java-Spring-Server/blob/master/docs/OAuth2.0_Diagrams.pdf?raw=true

Thanks,

Amanda Anganes
Info Sys Engineer, G061
The MITRE Corporation
782-271-3103
aanganes@mitre.org