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Daniel B.97
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11 years ago

OAuth2 implicit grant (token flow) does not work in IE/.Net Winform WebBrowser

Currently I'm developing a .Net WinForms desktop app. I initiate a token-based OAuth2 flow with this URL in IE11 (or to be more precise: the WebBrowser control of .Net WinForms): https://www.drop...
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Daniel B.97's avatar
Daniel B.97
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Hi Ivan,

here you can find my working solution. Maybe it helps you:

https://github.com/Kyrodan/KeeAnywhere/blob/master/KeeAnywhere/OAuth2/OAuth2Form.cs

I use the Navigated-Event.

The only drawback is, that due to the "JavaScript-Magic" the Default WebBrowser is opened on Windows 7 - no problems on Windows 10 (didn't ried on Vista,8, 8.1). In my opinion the JavaScript-stuff is crappy and not very stable. But I must say, that dropbox is one of the providers that implement OAuth2-Token-Flow "usable". For many others I need to use the Non-Fragment-URL-Way to a real existing Web-Server with a possible security problem - a no-go for a Desktop App.

Regards,
Daniel

 

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