[OAUTH-WG] User Story - User Denying access.

Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> Mon, 15 March 2010 20:42 UTC

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While considering what goes into OAuth 2.0 I'd like to incorporate this user
story:

Application redirects user to Authorization page.  User presses
[Cancel|Deny| etc.]

In this case the behavior is undefined by the spec.  In actual practice we
have:

* Twitter redirect to the callback URL with a denied GET parameter
* Hyves sends back an access token with an error property and a request URL
* LinkedIn redirects the user to a specific App-supplied URL.

It seems that redirecting and setting error states from the OAuth Error
Reporting extension would be the best way to go.  Thoughts?