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Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth vs OAuth2 in Authorization header

Torsten Lodderstedt <torsten@lodderstedt.net> Thu, 15 July 2010 06:22 UTC

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+1 for "OAuth2"

Brian Eaton schrieb:
> Draft 10 switched from "Token" scheme in the authorization header to
> "OAuth".  I'd rather we didn't reuse OAuth.  'OAuth2' would be great.
> "Token" is ugly as sin, but is better than "OAuth".
>
> Spec section: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-10#page-30
>
> The problem with reusing "OAuth" is that there are existing
> implementations in the wild that have special behavior implemented for
> OAuth authorization headers.  Since OAuth2 headers don't have the same
> semantics, we're going to break those implementations.  We shouldn't
> reuse "OAuth" for the same reasons we shouldn't reuse "Negotiate",
> "NTLM", "Digest", or "Basic.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
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