Tag: Authentication

OAuth 2.0: Better For Us, Better For You

Many companies are encouraging adoption of OAuth 2.0, and for good reason.  In days where we hear about credentials or sensitive information being exposed or hacked all the time (like here and here), it’s nice to know that using an API won’t make you or your users more vulnerable to attack. In a nutshell, basic […]

Using OAuth with the Constant Contact API

Before you get started using Constant Contact’s API, we want to tell you a little bit about how we use OAuth, an authentication protocol that confirms a user’s identity without requiring the storage of customer usernames and passwords. You’ve probably seen OAuth in action: it’s what’s behind the scenes when you log into one service […]