Receiving grants

OAuth 2.0 basically allows a third party website to access a limited or selective set of user information on a particular website. There are different kinds of authorization flows, two common ones of which are as follows:

• Authorization grant
• Implicit grant

We'll have a look at them in the following sub-sections.

Authorization grant

An authorization grant consists of an authorization link, which looks like the following:

https://www.example.com/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=CALLBACK_URL&scope=read

Let's break down the different components here:

• response_type: When set to code, the OAuth authorization server expects the grant to be of authorization grant type
• client_id: This is the client ID/app ID of the application
• redirect_uri: This contains a URL in percent-encoded form, and after the initial flow is complete, the authorization server redirects the flow to the specified URL
• scope: This refers to the level of access needed...