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BEST CURRENT PRACTICE

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RFC 6749

Authors:

W. Denniss
J. Bradley

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IETF

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oauth (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8252

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Abstract

OAuth 2.0 authorization requests from native apps should only be madethrough external user-agents, primarily the user's browser. Thisspecification details the security and usability reasons why this isthe case and how native apps and authorization servers can implementthis best practice.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.