Re: [OAUTH-WG] Versioning

Marius Scurtescu <mscurtescu@google.com> Thu, 01 July 2010 18:47 UTC

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From: Marius Scurtescu <mscurtescu@google.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:47:19 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:42 AM, William Mills <wmills@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marius Scurtescu [mailto:mscurtescu@google.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:36 AM
>> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
>> Cc: William Mills; Rob Richards; oauth@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Versioning
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
>> <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > If you would like to discuss a version for the header,
>> please provide examples and requirements for what changes in
>> the future you would like to support.
>>
>> Not sure about the future, but looking at OAuth 1 vs OAuth 2.
>> A protected resource request filter may want to decide early
>> what protocol it deals with so it can call the appropriate
>> handler, or to enforce HTTPS for OAuth 2 for example. Sure,
>> it can apply heuristics right now, but it would be nice to
>> have a more deterministic way which can also be extended in
>> the future. You can always embed the protocol version inside
>> the token I guess, so I don't think this is a huge issue.
>
> Yeah, unfortunately early selection of a handler might require peeking into the post body.

Is anybody really using or needing this feature? Can we drop this option?

Marius