Re: [OAUTH-WG] redircet_uri matching algorithm

I think the correct answer is that clients should always assume exact redirect_uri matching, and servers should always enforce it.  

Anything else is asking for trouble.

If clients need to maintain some state the correct thing to do is use the state parameter, and not append extra path or query elements to there redirect_uri.

A significant number of security problems in the wild come from servers not enforcing this.

I may be taking an excessively hard line, but partial matching is not something we should be encouraging by making easier.

I did do a draft on a way to safely use state https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-bradley-oauth-jwt-encoded-state-04.txt

John B.

> On May 16, 2015, at 4:43 AM, Patrick Gansterer <paroga@paroga.com> wrote:
> 
> "OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol” [1] is nearly finished and provides the possibility to register additional “Client Metadata”.
> 
> OAuth 2.0 does not define any matching algorithm for the redirect_uris. The latest information on that topic I could find is [1], which is 5 years old. Is there any more recent discussion about it?
> 
> I’d suggest to add an OPTIONAL “redirect_uris_matching_method” client metadata. Possible valid values could be:
> * “exact”: The “redirect_uri" provided in a redirect-based flow must match exactly one of of the provided strings in the “redirect_uris” array.
> * “prefix”: The "redirect_uri" must begin with one of the “redirect_uris”. (e.g. "http://example.com/path/subpath” would be valid with [“http://example.com/path/“, “http://example.com/otherpath/”])
> * “regex”: The provided “redirect_uris” are threatened as regular expressions, which the “redirect_uri” will be matched against. (e.g. “http://subdomain.example.com/path5/“ would be valid with [“^http:\\/\\/[a-z]+\\.example\\.com\\/path\\d+\\/“]
> 
> If not defined the server can choose any supported method, so we do not break existing implementations. On the other side it allows an client to make sure that a server supports a specific matching algorithm required by the client. ATM a client has no possibility to know how a server handles the redirect_uris.
> 
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-29
> [2] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg02617.html
> 
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