how i can do a post with auth?
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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franciscoluiz · 2016-03-09 13:38

i need to do a connection with a server, using post, to get the
token,  what is the better way?

i tried this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6291381/how-to-send-http-data-and-
get-response-with-synapse-delphi

but fails... how i can use oauth ? sugestions?

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SymbolicFrank · 2016-03-09 14:07

What version of OAuth? For OAuth 2.0 I had to make a custom server,
especially because most implementations differ.

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Leledumbo · 2016-03-09 15:19

There's no generic authentication algorithm, every sites / servers
implement their own. That stackoverflow answer demonstrates the HTTP
POST style, which is no different from standard HTTP POST request. It
doesn't return any token, usually your session id (which is a cookie
value) is used as a key to your authentication status in the server.

Another implementation is the basic authentication, which uses special
HTTP header for authenticating without any specific server side
session management, the browser cache is the only one that handles it.

Last but not least is OAuth, there are at least 3 versions of it: 1.0,
1.0a and 2.0. For 1.0a, you can look how we implement it for Twitter
and Plurk. 2.0 is not a pure protocol and thus cannot be used
interoperably as 1.0/1.0a because each implementor defines their own
mechanism of certain things, so it's really dependent on the target
server.

Suggestions:
Try to learn and understand what you want to implement before blindly
trying to implement it. "I tried this... but fails" is an indication
that you don't even know what you're talking about, don't even think
about implementing it.