[OAUTH-WG] client credentials flow got dropped?

Brian Eaton <beaton@google.com> Sun, 11 July 2010 03:11 UTC

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Hi folks -

Draft 6 section 2.9.1 had a section called "Client Requests Access
Token": http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-06#page-34.

In this flow a client presented a client_id and client_secret, and got
an access token in return.

I can't find the corresponding section in draft 7.  It looks like the
rewrite dropped this flow.  Am I missing something?

If this really did get dropped, please add it back.

In terms of normative language, the language in the draft 6 spec was
great.  The only change to that is to drop the refresh token, since it
provides no value.  I've already sent another note about that.

Cheers,
Brian