Re: [OAUTH-WG] Token Transfer Protocol

Igor Faynberg <igor.faynberg@alcatel-lucent.com> Mon, 18 October 2010 16:46 UTC

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Niklas Neumann wrote:
> ...
> I was wondering if there is interest in employing such a protocol in 
> cases where the HTTP redirection schemes of OAuth are not available or 
> not working well (e.g. desktop applications without access to a user 
> agent or authentication from a different device/application than the 
> one accessing the consumer).

A lot of interest on my part. 

Igor