3 "An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and
4 standard method from desktop and web applications."
6 In practical terms, OAuth is a mechanism for a Consumer to request protected
7 resources from a Service Provider on behalf of a user.
11 * classes that encapsulate OAuth messages (requests and responses)
13 * message serialization and parsing.
14 * 2-legged requests (aka. tokenless requests, aka. consumer requests)
16 Net::OAuth does not provide:
18 * Consumer or Service Provider encapsulation
19 * token/nonce/key storage/management
21 Please refer to the OAuth spec: http://oauth.net/documentation/spec