Blog posts tagged with 'offloading':



Using varnish to offload (and cache) your OAuth requests

Date: 06 Jul 2012
Tags: [ oauth ]  [ offloading ]  [ varnish

For a current project both me and a colleague are working on a big API system that authenticates through an OAuth system. Normally, such an API does all the necessary OAuth checking, handling of tokens etc, but we wanted to have a system that actually offloads our authentication just the same way one could offload HTTPS traffic for keeping the API simple, extendible and even performant.

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