Follow these simple steps to set up GitHub authentication with a personal access token: Open a command line window on your PC or Terminal on Mac Set the current directory to your project root cd C:\Users\Giddy\source\repo\MySampleProject Run the command to set remote access via a token git remote set-url origin https://username:token@github.com/username/repository.git Example: git remote set-url … Read more
I was reading an article the other day by Taiseer Joudeh and I find it very useful he said: In my own opinion there are three main benefits to use refresh tokens which they are: Updating access token content: as you know the access tokens are self contained tokens, they contain all the claims (Information) … Read more
This is a good question — there is a lot of confusion around tokens and OAuth. First up, when you mention OAuth, you are likely referring to the OAuth2 standard. This is the latest version of the OAuth protocol, and is what most people are specifically talking about when they say ‘OAuth’. The OAuth protocol … Read more
Let me come to your questions a little later down the line and start by actually discussing the whole purpose of a refresh token. So the situation is: The user opens the app and provides his login credentials. Now, most probably the app is interacting with a REST backend service. REST is stateless, there isn’t … Read more
Found out by adding this to your url parameters approval_prompt=force Update: Use access_type=offline&prompt=consent instead. approval_prompt=force no longer works https://github.com/googleapis/oauth2client/issues/453
I use Auth0’s jwt-decode package for decoding JWT token in Angular; this package works for me fine. After installing the package through this command: npm install jwt-decode Import this package into your TypeScript class using this syntax: import * as jwt_decode from “jwt-decode”; Or for newer versions (3 and above): import jwt_decode from ‘jwt-decode’; Then … Read more
So i finally figured out how to do this. The basic idea is that you have the token you get the first time you ask for authentication. This first token has a refresh token. The first original token expires after an hour. After an hour you have to use the refresh token from the first … Read more
The requests package has a very nice API for HTTP requests, adding a custom header works like this (source: official docs): >>> import requests >>> response = requests.get( … ‘https://website.example/id’, headers={‘Authorization’: ‘access_token myToken’}) If you don’t want to use an external dependency, the same thing using urllib2 of the standard library looks like this (source: … Read more
Go to the Graph API Explorer Choose your app from the dropdown menu Click “Get Access Token” Choose the manage_pages permission (you may need the user_events permission too, not sure) Now access the me/accounts connection and copy your page’s access_token Click on your page’s id Add the page’s access_token to the GET fields Call the … Read more
The Google Auth server issued Refresh tokens never expire — that’s the whole point of the refresh tokens. The refresh token will expire (or I should say become unauthorized) when the user revokes access to your application. Refer this doc it clearly states the function of refresh tokens. Instead of issuing a long lasting token … Read more