CHAPTER 4

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Authenticating Yammer Users

Pathik Rawal

In the previous chapter, you learned Yammer App basics, including the registration and configuration processes of Yammer apps. In this chapter, we outline the Yammer authentication process. You will become familiar with the OAuth protocol and its server-side and client-side flows. You’ll also learn to tackle Yammer authentication in the exercise section of this chapter using both client-side OAuth flow and server-side OAuth flow.

In this chapter, we will cover following points

  • Understand Yammer authentication
  • Understand OAuth 2.0
  • Understand OAuth flows
  • Learn and implement server-side flow

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