Re: [OAUTH-WG] Open Issues: Group Survey (respond by 5/13)

Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Thu, 13 May 2010 23:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Open Issues: Group Survey (respond by 5/13)
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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
> Can you give a reason why you are objecting to C.
>

As I just wrote:
> My objection to C was that your examples were buggy.

I don't think servers or clients will get XML, JSON, and form-encoded
right without taking on a lot of 3rd party dependencies.

Even if those dependencies are ok, three serialization formats will
enlarge the QA matrix enough to hurt interoperability. The nature of
this objection seems pretty obvious.

- Rob

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