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<p dir="auto">Well the redirect URI is something your client library documentation should be telling you - you really don't want to be rolling your own OAuth when there are plenty of libraries that have already done it. Basically it's the URL the authentication will redirect back to after the client has been authorised.</p>
<p dir="auto">If this is for a command line client then use <code class="notranslate">urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob</code> as the URI and it won't redirect and will instead display the authorization code for you to copy and paste.</p>
<p dir="auto">The confidential application flag just indicates whether you are able to keep the client details secret (ie confidential) or whether they will be shipped with an application.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Well the redirect URI is something your client library documentation should be telling you - you really don't want to be rolling your own OAuth when there are plenty of libraries that have already done it. Basically it's the URL the authentication will redirect back to after the client has been authorised.</p>
<p dir="auto">If this is for a command line client then use <code class="notranslate">urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob</code> as the URI and it won't redirect and will instead display the authorization code for you to copy and paste.</p>
<p dir="auto">The confidential application flag just indicates whether you are able to keep the client details secret (ie confidential) or whether they will be shipped with an application.</p>
<p dir="auto">The <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OAuth#Registering_your_application_as_OAuth_2.0_consumer" rel="nofollow">wiki has more details</a>.</p>
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