Re: [OAUTH-WG] username password delegation profile

Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> Tue, 15 June 2010 01:54 UTC

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From: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
To: Brian Eaton <beaton@google.com>, "oauth@ietf.org" <oauth@ietf.org>
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How would you propose this as a generic mechanism for the token endpoint as defined in -08 (or -07)?

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oauth-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of Brian Eaton
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 5:45 PM
> To: oauth@ietf.org
> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] username password delegation profile
> 
> A couple of comments on this profile.
> 
> 1) Error URL
> 
> I noticed that there was wide consensus that returning a captcha-specific
> error was not going to be useful.  That matches our experience with
> ClientLogin [1] - very few developers properly handle captcha.  And if a
> developer is sophisticated enough to handle Captchas, I would rather they
> just used a web browser in the first place.
> 
> However, lots of developers do tell users to visit the URL we return in our
> error response.  This is often sufficient to resolve whatever problems are
> happening with the user's account.  So I'd like to see an optional "url"
> parameter returned with the "invalid_credentials" error code.  Clients should
> instruct the user to visit that URL.
> 
> 2) Is anyone actually going to implement this flow and not return a refresh
> token?
> 
> Cheers,
> Brian
> 
> [1] http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.html
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