Is it possible to expose an API for my own WebSite ... but use oAuth for the api authentication?

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Hi Folks,

currently I expose an api for my website. Works great .. and i use Basic Authentication to authenticate users to get access to the data.

eg.

http://www.MyWebSite.com  <-- main site.
http://api.MyWebSite.com  <-- my api website.

sample api RESTful url

http://user1:[email protected]/games?type=battlefield2

(yes yes i know browsers stop people from putting in user1:pass1 (Basic Auth) into the url directly .. cause of security . but it's to highlight that we're using Basic Auth)).

So .. how can i do this with oAuth?

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