Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Specification Draft -10

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 20 October 2011 08:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Specification Draft -10
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On 2011-10-20 10:05, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2011-10-20 09:41, Mike Jones wrote:
>> Your proposed wording for 2.4 misses the point: \ MUST NOT occur at
>> all in the input string. No quoting may occur.
>  > ...
>
> No, it doesn't miss the point.
>
> You need to tell implementers whether they can use a quoted-string
> processor. Those processors will accept all the values you want to
> support, plus values that contain "\c" (representing "c"). Is this ok,
> or are recipients supposed to reject these values?
>
> Furthermore, it's not clear what recipients are supposed to do with
> values that are not quoted, for instance for scope. The ABNF makes them
> illegal, but I promise you that many recipients will accept them
> nevertheless (unless you manage them to become draconian using a very
> good test suite).
>
> See <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc/httpauth/#simplebasictok> for a test
> case checking this for the realm parameter. It's already bad for many
> existing headers, please let's do things right with new ones.
>
> Best regards, Julian

...finally, the syntax for the WWW-Authenticate header field is defined 
by HTTPbis, not the OAuth spec. Recipients need to process the header 
field using a generic parser, and only after doing so can delegate to an 
OAuth-specific component for interpretation of the OAuth-specific 
semantics. Translation: a recipient that supports multiple 
authentication schemes is unlikely to implement an OAuth-specific 
*parser* for the header field.

Best regards, Julian