Re: [OAUTH-WG] misc comments on draft

Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> Thu, 29 April 2010 20:09 UTC

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> access token definition is: "A unique identifier used by the client"
> 
> I agree with Dick, tokens are not identifiers.

Please suggest text.

> "The redirection URI MUST NOT includes a query component as defined by
> [RFC3986] section 3 if the state parameter is present." -> Wow.  This is
> convoluted.  How did we get here?

See previous discussion.

> "secret_type" - wouldn't this flow always return a bearer token?

Why?

EHL