Re: [OAUTH-WG] Simpilfying use of assertions when requesting an access token

Justin Richer <jricher@mitre.org> Thu, 02 September 2010 21:26 UTC

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+1

I've never liked the notion of not being able to extend the "grant type"
field, and this change addresses that particular gripe.

Just so I'm clear here: an extension that defines its own url-defined
grant type can also legally add and remove parameters from the endpoint,
right?

 -- Justin

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 17:11 -0400, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> I would like to make this change in -11:
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> Instead of the current user of the ‘assertion’ grant type –
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>  
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>   POST /token HTTP/1.1
> 
>   Host: server.example.com
> 
>   Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
>   
> 
>   grant_type=assertion&
> 
>   assertion_type=urn%3Aoasis%3Anames%3Atc%3ASAML%3A2.0%3Aassertion&
> 
>   assertion=PHNhbWxwOl[...omitted for brevity...]ZT4%3D
> 
>  
> 
> Drop the ‘assertion’ grant type and put the assertion type directly in
> the grant_type parameter:
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>  
> 
>   POST /token HTTP/1.1
> 
>   Host: server.example.com
> 
>   Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
>   
> 
>   grant_type=urn%3Aoasis%3Anames%3Atc%3ASAML%3A2.0%3Aassertion&
> 
>   assertion=PHNhbWxwOl[...omitted for brevity...]ZT4%3D
> 
>  
> 
> In other words, the grant_type parameter value will be defined as:
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>  
> 
> -          authorization_code
> 
> -          password
> 
> -          client_credentials
> 
> -          refresh_token
> 
> -          an abolute URI (extensions)
> 
>  
> 
> I considered turning all the values into URIs but found it to be
> counter-intuitive. The practice of using “official” short names and
> extension URIs is well established and is already the general
> architecture used here. This just makes it cleaner. 
> 
>  
> 
> I ran this idea by Brian Campbell and Chuck Mortimore who are
> generally supportive of the idea.
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>  
> 
> Any objections?
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> EHL
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>