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Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 14 October 2011 16:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer-09: Open Issues & Proposed Resolutions
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On 2011-10-14 18:46, Mike Jones wrote:
> Indeed, recognizing that you're right that "you can't do that" with the current syntax, we decided to change scope to quoted-string so that it is compatible with HTTPbis and add the restriction that no "\" quoting may be present in the string (to simplify implementations).
> ...

That's better, but I still believe that making up special rules is not 
productive. Just stick with the base syntax. If a "\" appears in a 
quoted-string, it means what it means, and recipients should be able to 
deal with it.

Best regards, Julian

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