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Re: [OAUTH-WG] Defining a maximum token length?

Dick Hardt <dick.hardt@gmail.com> Wed, 10 March 2010 02:33 UTC

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On 2010-03-09, at 6:24 PM, Ethan Jewett wrote:

> I think it would make sense to advise client library and application
> programmers to provide for the possibility of and storage of large
> tokens. We should probably reference examples of tokens seen in the
> wild and mention the technical limitations on token length from the
> HTTP protocol (with Dick outlines). I'm not sure where in the spec
> this would go, but it sounds like a good thing to include.

In the WRAP spec, we had a section entitled "Parameter Considerations".

-- Dick

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