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What is the consumer key?
Consumer key is the API key that a service provider (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) issues to a consumer (a service that wants to access a user’s resources on the service provider). This key is what identifies the consumer.
What is consumer key and consumer secret in oauth?
OAuth includes a Consumer Key and matching Consumer Secret that together authenticate the Consumer (as opposed to the User) to the Service Provider. Consumer-specific identification allows the Service Provider to vary access levels to Consumers (such as un-throttled access to resources).
Is API key consumer key?
An API key (known in Apigee as a consumer key) is a string value passed by a client app to your API proxies. The key uniquely identifies the client app. API key validation is the simplest form of app-based security that you can configure for an API.
What is an OAuth consumer key?
Consumer: A website or application that uses OAuth to access the Service Provider on behalf of the User. A secret used by the Consumer to establish ownership of the Consumer Key. Request Token: A value used by the Consumer to obtain authorization from the User, and exchanged for an Access Token.
How to obtain consumer key and secret of connected app?
How to obtain a Consumer Key and Secret of the Connected App? For an existing Connected App, do the following: Navigate to Setup –> Create –> Apps. Click on the app that is needed. The loaded page contains this information under API (Enable OAuth Settings). From Setup, navigate to Create –> Apps. Click New to define a Connected app.
Where to find consumer key and consumer secret?
Give your permission preference in the “Selected OAuth Scopes” and hit on Save. You will notice that you will find the Consumer Key and have a link to relieve the Consumer Secret. I hope it will be helpful.
When do you need to manage your connected app unit?
However, they might need to access this connected app from outside the company network, for instance, if they are at a customer’s site. As your first step in managing connected app access, define who can use the Customer Order Status connected app.
How to obtain a consumer key and secret in CRM?
Depending on which OAuth flow is used, this is typically the URL that a user’s browser redirects to after successful authentication. As this URL is used for some OAuth flows to pass an access token, the URL must use secure HTTP (HTTPS) or a custom URI scheme. Add all supported OAuth scopes to Selected OAuth Scopes.