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Re: [OAUTH-WG] Issue: Split the authorization endpoint into two endpoints

"Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> Sat, 17 April 2010 02:03 UTC

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>> In either case, we should not restrict the access token URL to POST-only.
>> A GET request is just as secure and can be much easier to write code for

> If you are using GET, then refresh tokens and client secrets will end
> up side by side in web server log files.

These are exactly the sort of reasons why client authentication should be any "normal" auth scheme, and not an OAuth-special client_secret POST parameter. That fails for PUT, DELETE, and POST with a non-form body; and the security changes with GET.

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James Manger

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