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...This feels more like OpenID rather than OAuth. Could someone explain? I'm so confused.



People apparently think that OAuth is Open Authentication not Open Authorization. I think that ship has sailed, unfortunately. Although it still confuses me when I go to log in to a site and I get the pop-up about "Do you want to authorize this application to access <X>?"




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