[OAUTH-WG] Issue 18: defining new response types

Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com> Fri, 15 July 2011 17:02 UTC

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I agree that this functionality is needed.  However, I believe its current embodiment is overly restrictive.  I would suggest changing this text:

Only one response type of each combination may be registered and used for making requests. Composite response types are treated and compared in the same as manner as non-composite response types. The "+" notation is meant only to improve human readability and is not used for machine parsing.

For example, an extension can define and register the token+code response type. However, once registered, the same combination cannot be registered as code+token, or used to make an authorization request.
to this:

The order of the composite response type values is not significant.  For instance, the composite response types token+code and code+token are equivalent.  Each composite response type value MUST occur only once.
                                                                Thanks,
                                                                -- Mike