API Rant: You Call THAT Authentication?
This is a slight departure from my usual rants, but only because authentication has occupied too much of my damn time this week. Many years ago, we wrote a White Paper on OAuth with the team at OAuth.io who includes the amazing crew behind the APIdays events. It was called "The Standard That Isn’t." We almost called it the 57 Flavors of Authentication, but we thought we might get sued. Still better than 50 Shades of Authenticattion. Our position was that there were LOTS of REALLY ANNOYING problems with OAuth that made handling API authentication painful. You’d have thought that [...]