Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

Can we implement authentication using Oauth2 for outlook as basic authentication is going to be deprecated soon by microsoft outlook.

Can someone explain in detail and help to understand it.

Thanks.

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Re: Oauth2 authentication protocol for microsoft outlook.
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Feb 01, 2020 at 16:11 UTC

    Anonymous Monk:

    I don't know anything about Microsoft Outlook, but since you're asking about OAuth2 authentication, have you looked at LWP::Authen::OAuth2? It may be a good starting point. There are several other OAuth2 packages on CPAN, if that one doesn't fit your needs.

    ...roboticus

    When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

Re: Oauth2 authentication protocol for microsoft outlook.
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 10, 2020 at 16:31 UTC

    Thank you for the reply. i will take a look.