Add parent sections of Legacy API and OAuth 2.0 API

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@ -560,9 +560,11 @@ specifying the device ID it is already using to the login API.
with an `M_USER_LOCKED` error code, cannot obtain a new access token until
the account has been [unlocked](#account-locking).
### User-Interactive Authentication API
### Legacy API
#### Overview
#### User-Interactive Authentication API
##### Overview
Some API endpoints require authentication that interacts with the user.
The homeserver may provide many different ways of authenticating, such
@ -586,7 +588,7 @@ the flows in order must result in an HTTP 401 response, as defined
below. When all stages in a flow are complete, authentication is
complete and the API call succeeds.
#### User-interactive API in the REST API
##### User-interactive API in the REST API
In the REST API described in this specification, authentication works by
the client and server exchanging JSON dictionaries. The server indicates
@ -764,7 +766,7 @@ auth by offering a stage with only the `m.login.dummy` auth type, but they
must still give a 401 response to requests with no auth data.
{{% /boxes/note %}}
#### Example
**Example**
At a high level, the requests made for an API call completing an auth
flow with three stages will resemble the following diagram:
@ -806,7 +808,7 @@ flow with three stages will resemble the following diagram:
|_______________________|
```
#### Authentication types
##### Authentication types
This specification defines the following auth types:
- `m.login.password`
@ -817,7 +819,7 @@ This specification defines the following auth types:
- `m.login.dummy`
- `m.login.registration_token`
##### Password-based
###### Password-based
| Type | Description |
@ -876,7 +878,7 @@ explicitly as follows:
In the case that the homeserver does not know about the supplied 3PID,
the homeserver must respond with 403 Forbidden.
##### Google ReCaptcha
###### Google ReCaptcha
| Type | Description |
|---------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
@ -893,7 +895,7 @@ follows:
}
```
##### Single Sign-On
###### Single Sign-On
| Type | Description |
|---------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
@ -903,7 +905,7 @@ A client wanting to complete authentication using SSO should use the
[Fallback](#fallback) mechanism. See [SSO during User-Interactive
Authentication](#sso-during-user-interactive-authentication) for more information.
##### Email-based (identity / homeserver)
###### Email-based (identity / homeserver)
| Type | Description |
|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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Note that `id_server` (and therefore `id_access_token`) is optional if
the [`/requestToken`](#post_matrixclientv3registeremailrequesttoken) request did not include them.
##### Phone number/MSISDN-based (identity / homeserver)
###### Phone number/MSISDN-based (identity / homeserver)
| Type | Description |
|------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
@ -961,7 +963,7 @@ follows:
Note that `id_server` (and therefore `id_access_token`) is optional if
the [`/requestToken`](#post_matrixclientv3registermsisdnrequesttoken) request did not include them.
##### Dummy Auth
###### Dummy Auth
| Type | Description |
|------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
@ -987,7 +989,7 @@ just the type and session, if provided:
}
```
##### Token-authenticated registration
###### Token-authenticated registration
{{% added-in v="1.2" %}}
@ -1031,7 +1033,7 @@ in the registration process that their token has expired.
{{% http-api spec="client-server" api="registration_tokens" %}}
##### Terms of service at registration
###### Terms of service at registration
{{% added-in v="1.11" %}}
@ -1154,7 +1156,7 @@ user during registration, if applicable.
{{% definition path="api/client-server/definitions/m.login.terms_params" %}}
#### Fallback
##### Fallback
Clients cannot be expected to be able to know how to process every
single login type. If a client does not know how to handle a given login
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}
```
##### Example
**Example**
A client webapp might use the following JavaScript to open a popup
window which will handle unknown login types:
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}
```
#### Identifier types
##### Identifier types
Some authentication mechanisms use a user identifier object to identify
a user. The user identifier object has a `type` field to indicate the
@ -1264,7 +1266,7 @@ This specification defines the following identifier types:
- `m.id.thirdparty`
- `m.id.phone`
##### Matrix User ID
###### Matrix User ID
| Type | Description |
|-------------|--------------------------------------------|
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}
```
##### Third-party ID
###### Third-party ID
| Type | Description |
|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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}
```
##### Phone number
###### Phone number
| Type | Description |
|--------------|-------------------------------------------|
@ -1327,7 +1329,7 @@ The `country` is the two-letter uppercase ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country
code that the number in `phone` should be parsed as if it were dialled
from.
### Login
#### Login
A client can obtain access tokens using the [`/login`](#post_matrixclientv3login) API.
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{{% http-api spec="client-server" api="logout" %}}
#### Appservice Login
##### Appservice Login
{{% added-in v="1.2" %}}
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not lie within its namespace then the homeserver will respond with an
errcode of `M_EXCLUSIVE`.
#### Login Fallback
##### Login Fallback
If a client does not recognize any or all login flows it can use the
fallback login API:
@ -1456,13 +1458,13 @@ forwarded to the login endpoint during the login process. For example:
GET /_matrix/static/client/login/?device_id=GHTYAJCE
### Account registration
#### Account registration
{{% http-api spec="client-server" api="registration" %}}
### Account management
#### Account management
#### Password management
##### Password management
{{% boxes/warning %}}
Clients SHOULD enforce that the password provided is suitably complex.
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{{% http-api spec="client-server" api="password_management" %}}
#### Account deactivation
##### Account deactivation
{{% http-api spec="client-server" api="account_deactivation" %}}
### OAuth 2.0 API
### Account moderation
#### Account locking