Re: gmail+imap+smtp (oauth2)

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Wed 04 May 2022 at 11:41, Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org> wrote:
>>> One issue with OAuth2 schemes is that they periodically force the user
>>> through a web-browser-only authentication process that requires non-free
>>> JavaScript, in order to get a refresh token.
[...]
>> There is nothing which requires oauth2 be implemented in Javascript or
>> that requies it to use non-free software.

exactly

getting the bearer token is just a few https requests

> So can you describe how to get an OAuth 2.0 gmail.com refresh token
> without the use of non-free JavaScript?

i don't use gmail so i cannot answer this specific question

but as pointed out, the real issue is not so much on the client side
but on the server side