Re: [OAUTH-WG] Typos and language in -21

Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> Tue, 20 September 2011 18:46 UTC

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From: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
To: Niv Steingarten <nivstein@gmail.com>, OAuth WG <oauth@ietf.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:46:55 -0700
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Thanks.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oauth-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of Niv Steingarten
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 2:01 PM
> To: OAuth WG
> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Typos and language in -21
> 
> In section 10.12 (CSRF):
> 
> 5th paragraph: "A CSRF attack against the against the authorization server's
> authorization endpoint"
> 
>     One "against the" is redundant.
> 
> 4th paragraph: "The binding value enables the client to validate the validity of
> the request by matching the binding value to the user-agent's authenticated
> state."
> 
>     The phrase "validate the validity of the request" sounds a bit awkward in
> my opinion. I'd personally go with either "establish the validity of the
> request" or simply "validate the request".
> 
> 
> -- Niv
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