Does Box support the oauth 2 device flow?

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Daniel Russ

• June 25, 2021 16:04
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Hi, I am developing an application that will run on an hpc cluster, and I cannot guarantee the computer/port number for a callback URL for the oauth dance.  Is it a bad idea to use the oauth device flow? Can my application perform the oauth 2 device authentication flow with box? 

 

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  Alex Novotny

  • June 28, 2021 15:40

  Hey Daniel! 

  Thanks for the question! I'm interested to hear more. What exactly is your application going to be doing? With Box's Oauth flow, a user would need to interact with a UI. It will also redirect to a url after a user approves/logs in. You can manually set the url like it is described here in the redirect user section. 

  Thanks, 

  Alex, Box Developer Advocate

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  Daniel Russ

  • July 14, 2021 17:39

  Hi Alex,

     My use case is that I am reading data from box on a cluster compute node that doesn't have direct access to the internet, but I could create an ssh tunnel to the cluster head node.  The issue is that one the app is started, the user typically doesn't interact with the application.  So I think we need to get the tokens in advance.

  Daniel

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