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There are one page regex cheat sheets you can print out and put in your workspace. Then you simply consult the cheat sheets.

Unfortunately oauth cannot be compressed into a cheat sheet.

But yeah, oauth is absolutely something you forget right after using it and have to bootstrap every time you touch it.






> Unfortunately oauth cannot be compressed into a cheat sheet.

What's so hard about a specific authentication flow?

You have a user, a client app, a resource service, and an authorization service. You have a sequence of requests that send data back and forth. The end result is a token that client apps can send to a resource service. What bit requires volumes to understand?

Take a minute to check RFC6749. All authorization flows in there require between 2 to 6 pages to fully define. Is this too much info to parse?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749


You casually gloss over the hardest part of oauth (the sequence of requests made and the reason why they exist), which is the part no one remembers.



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