What is OAuth token and why should I migrate from Authtokens to it?
- OAuth tokens are an industry standard protocol that are replacing old and obsolete authtokens. Unlike OAuth tokens which expire in one hour, authtokens will never expire unless you manually revoke them in your Zoho Accounts dashboard leading to many privacy concerns.
- OAuth tokens must need a web session where the users will grant access/deny permission for the applications to access their details. Applications will gain access only to the resources authorized by the users and they can revoke the permissions any time they want.
- Also for application developers, you need not have to wait for user to grant permission every time. With help of refresh tokens, you can regenerate access tokens once they expire.