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Re: [OAUTH-WG] application/x-www-form-urlencoded vs JSON (Proposal)

Allen Tom <atom@yahoo-inc.com> Fri, 30 April 2010 18:47 UTC

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On 4/29/10 1:49 PM, "Yaron Goland" <yarong@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Can we please just have one format, not 3? The more choices we give the more
> interoperability suffers.

+1

I vote for JSON, and I'm not a fan of XML, however my main preference is
that we just pick one.

One of the primary goals of OAuth-WRAP was to make things simple - and
having more than one way to express the same thing increases complexity and
reduces interop.

Allen

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