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Scott_M
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8 years ago
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OAuth2 http authentication, how to have browser show success?

In our OAuth1, after the user clicked 'Allow' in the browser, the user would get a 'success' message.   In our OAuth2, the 'Allow' page in the browser just sits there (even though the app has authe...
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    Greg-DB
    8 years ago
    Thanks! That's helpful, and it's what I expected. In this case, the best solution would be to configure your localhost server to respond to that GET request with a simple HTML success page of your liking.
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
Thanks! That's helpful, and it's what I expected. In this case, the best solution would be to configure your localhost server to respond to that GET request with a simple HTML success page of your liking.
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    Scott_M
    Explorer | Level 3
    8 years ago

    OK. It might be nice if there was a way to get the browser to display a success response (as in OAuth1) where the success message had a Dropbox look and feel to it.

     

    But I have it doing something semi-ugly now. I'll see if I get someone to put together something nice looking...

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