Re: [OAUTH-WG] Draft -07 (major rewrite)

Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> Fri, 11 June 2010 21:34 UTC

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From: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
To: Christian Scholz <cs@comlounge.net>, OAuth WG <oauth@ietf.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:33:45 -0700
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The comment was about the token endpoint which used to include a 'type' parameter (indicating the flow being used). All the flows share the same token endpoint.

EHL


On 6/11/10 2:24 PM, "Christian Scholz" <cs@comlounge.net> wrote:

Hi!

Am 11.06.10 22:47, schrieb Marius Scurtescu:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
>> Draft -07 represents a major rearrangement of the document. I still have a lot of work to do but wanted to share my progress and get some general feedback. The draft includes a few normative language changes but the main focus is on the document structure and how the architecture is explained.
>>
>> Changes include:
>>
>>   o  Removed device profile.
>>   o  Added verification code support to user-agent flow.
>>   o  Removed multiple formats support, leaving JSON as the only format.
>>   o  Changed assertion "assertion_format" parameter to "assertion_type".
>>   o  Removed "type" parameter from token endpoint.
>
> It would be really useful if each request had a unique type, now we
> are back to guessing what is requested, like in WRAP.

I am just wondering why having a separate endpoint for this isn't
enough. I would rather map another library call to another endpoint
instead of relying on guessing on the contents. That's why we have
separate endpoints, I guess.

(I might be missing something though)

-- Christian


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