Are there client-side technologies for interacting between the desktop and the web other than Java?

Question

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Colleagues, here is the question. Are there client-side technologies for interacting between the desktop and the web other than Java? In particular, is it possible to check the authenticity of a user trying to log in using a desktop application? Interested in direct interaction, roughly speaking, the browser <-> application. Thanks

Answer 1

Look towards the REST API, it might work.
Verification can be implemented on tokens. Passing it on requests.
api.mail.ru/docs/guides/restapi

Answer 2

Correct option: using OAuth2, the application receives a token, uses it and interacts with the server.

Answer 3

@kealman

browser <-> application.

What for? If the application can establish network connections, then it should immediately go to the server.

Answer 4

Why is there another application for authorization? Better then complicate the authorization algorithm on the server. But why fence the garden. You get a strange scheme: client> client> server. Moreover, it is not clear how you are going to check the presence of the app on the computer from the web client - fasten the applet? There is a proven scheme: client - server. Let the client be one thing, either a desktop application or a web client. IMHO of course.