Basics

January 12, 2021

Single Sign On

SINGLE SIGN ON (SSO) Single sign-on (SSO) is a high level concept that permits a user to use one set of login credentials (e.g., username and password) to access multiple applications. The service authenticates the end user for all the applications the user has been given rights to and eliminates further prompts when the user switches applications during the same session. On the back end, SSO is helpful for logging user activities as well as monitoring user accounts. Thus, SSO is an authentication/authorization flow through which a user can log into multiple services using the same credentials. A single sign-on solution […]

January 10, 2021

JSON

Json stands for JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is an open-standard file format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and array data types and is language independent. It is derived from javascript. The official Internet media type for JSON is application/json. JSON filenames use the extension .json. JSON was created because there was a need for light weight data interchange format. There are other formats also like XML,YAML, HOCON but there was a need for less verbose light weight data interchange format. JSON fulfills all these requirements. Douglas Crockford originally specified the JSON format in the […]