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

Brian Campbell <bcampbell@pingidentity.com> Tue, 21 September 2010 21:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Simpilfying use of assertions when requesting an access token
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Following from that (Justin: "url-defined grant type can also legally
add and remove parameters from the endpoint, right?" / Eran: "Yes")
does the assertion parameter still make sense to have in the core
spec?  I had sort of assumed that it would be going away in favor of
whatever parameters any url-defined grant type would deem necessary.
However, Eran's "working copy" of draft -11 as of 2010-09-03 still has
the assertion parameter.  Is that area still being worked on or was
the intent to leave the parameter in for -11?


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
> Yes.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Richer [mailto:jricher@mitre.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:27 PM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org)
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Simpilfying use of assertions when requesting an access token
>
> +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:
>>
>>
>>
>> Instead of the current user of the ‘assertion’ grant type –
>>
>>
>>
>>   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:
>>
>>
>>
>>   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:
>>
>>
>>
>> -          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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any objections?
>>
>>
>>
>> EHL
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