Re: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests

Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> Thu, 10 June 2010 17:54 UTC

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From: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
To: Marius Scurtescu <mscurtescu@google.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:54:10 -0700
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
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Which is fine if it doesn't support 2.0.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marius Scurtescu [mailto:mscurtescu@google.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:53 AM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: Paul Lindner; OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org)
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
> <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
> > But in that case, all the other oauth_* parameters are missing. It's trivial.
> 
> An OAuth 1 filter will interpret this as broken OAuth 1 authentication.
> 
> Marius
> 
> >
> > EHL
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Marius Scurtescu [mailto:mscurtescu@google.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:39 AM
> >> To: Paul Lindner
> >> Cc: Eran Hammer-Lahav; OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org)
> >> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
> >>
> >> I run into the same issue. In section "4.2. URI Query Parameter", it
> >> would help if the parameter name, oauth_token, was different from
> OAuth 1.
> >>
> >> Marius
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com>
> wrote:
> >> > I am talking about the resource server. Specifically I want to be
> >> > able to quickly determine if an incoming request is 1.0a vs 2.0.
> >> > And since this is a library it can't make a lot of assumptions
> >> > about the specific environment it's running in.
> >> > At first I thought I would check the oauth_version parameter.  It
> >> > turns out the 1.0a spec says that it is optional.  The only one
> >> > that is required for 1.0a is oauth_signature_method.
> >> > Sadly we're long past time to change the spec to optimize for this use-
> case.
> >> >  (It would have been better to have a parameter for oauth 2.0 that
> >> > is distinct from 1.0a)  At the very least this message will live on
> >> > in the mailing list archives -- at best we document the proper way
> >> > to distinguish between the two versions somewhere.
> >> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
> >> > <eran@hueniverse.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> The request is very different on the resource server. On the
> >> >> authorization server, why would you use the same endpoint?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> EHL
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> From: oauth-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-bounces@ietf.org] On
> >> >> Behalf Of Paul Lindner
> >> >> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:24 AM
> >> >> To: OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org)
> >> >> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> As I've been working through our oauth2 implementation I've
> >> >> noticed that it's not easy to disambiguate OAuth 1.0a vs 2.0 API
> >> >> calls based on the request parameters alone.   Based on some
> >> >> investigative at the Shindig project it appears that the only
> >> >> standard way to to determine 1.0a vs 2.0 is by checking for the
> >> >> oauth_signature_method
> >> parameter.  More info here:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-1361
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Has anyone else considered this use case?  How did you solve it?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
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> >> >
> >