Re: [OAUTH-WG] Issue: specificity of the assertion flow

Brian Eaton <beaton@google.com> Sat, 17 April 2010 00:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Issue: specificity of the assertion flow
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Chuck Mortimore
<cmortimore@salesforce.com> wrote:
> Could you please take another glance at what I posted?   There are a number
> of changes to the general assertion flow that are required for it to reflect
> how this will be used in a lot of scenarios.

>  (A)  The client sends an access token request to the authorization server and includes a self-issued assertion.

Why self issued?

> The value of the assertion parameter MUST be a valid SAML <Response> message

Why saml Response instead of saml Assertion?

Scope would be useful in this profile.

Adding form-encoded content-type header to the examples would be useful.

Cheers,
Brian