On a news Messenger connect next will support OAuth 2.0, Microsoft has promised that the next iteration of Messenger connect will be designed to play nice with version 2.0 of OAuth by default.
As Dare Obasanjo said “The Windows Live team is pleased to announce the support for OAuth 2.0 in the next version of developer platform, Messenger Connect, which allows developers to build sites and applications that use data from the Windows Live network,”
“This development builds on an existing commitment to open web standards shown in the current version through our implementation of ActivityStrea.ms, OAuth Wrap, Portable Contacts, & OData.”
Messenger Connect already offers developers the possibility to leverage OAuth, and taken into consideration the company’s latest announcement, the same will be valid for the next version of the standard.
Just as it is the case with OpenID, OAuth is about providing access to third-parties to specific content. However, there’s a fundamental difference between the two, and it’s related to identity.
With OAuth, web developers can take advantage of an API which permits them to offer services to users, but without requiring them to share their credentials.
“OAuth provides a method for clients to access server resources on behalf of a resource owner (such as a different client or an end-user),” reads an excerpt of OAuth’s description.
“It also provides a process for end-users to authorize third-party access to their server resources without sharing their credentials (typically, a username and password pair), using user-agent redirections.”
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