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OpenID versus OAuth from the user’s perspective
In this article I want to show the differences between OpenID and its younger cousin OAuth by providing for each a typical user scenario. First the scenario for OpenID:
OAuth-OpenID: You’re Barking Up the Wrong Tree if you Think They’re the Same Thing
OAuth, OpenID…they sound like the same thing and they kind of do vaguely similar things But I’m here to tell you, OAuth is not Open ID . They have a different purpose. I’ve been playing around with OAuth a bit in the past couple weeks and have a grip on what it’s aiming to do and what it’s not aiming to do.
