ColdFusion (2025)’s CFOAUTH Tag / / No Comments Back in May of last year, I wrote up a blog post on ColdFusion’s oauth tag. This was based on a feature from way back in ColdFusion 11 that I thought I’d take a look at to see if it was useful. I’m not going to repeat the entire previous blog post, but in general… it was almost something I’d recommend. The tag did a good job of handling creating the right oauth link for you. So you could (after setting stuff up with your provider of course) drop the tag on a page, and when the user hit it, they would be prompted to login with the third party provider. When returned, the tag would handle getting the access token and such and giving you a nice little structure of data... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2025's, CFOAUTH, ColdFusion
ColdFusion’s CFOAUTH Tag / / No Comments This will be my third ColdFusion post in the past year. I’m not saying I’m going to continue the trend, but as I find interesting use cases, I’m going to share. Today, that involves the <cfoauth> tag that I recently had a chance to play with. About two weeks ago, an old client of mine reached out asking for help adding an OAuth flow to their CF app. I’ve covered CF and OAuth in a few posts from ten-plus years ago (part one, covering Facebook, part two, covering LinkedIn, and part three, covering Google). That code demonstrated the basics of using OAuth, which entailed: Creating your application on the platform you’ll be authenticating again, which gives you... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: CFOAUTH, ColdFusion's