Re: [OAUTH-WG] Defining a maximum token length?

+1  on having no limits for the Access Token length.

I  fully acknowledge that shorter is better  in the case where access
tokens are passed on the URL as query parameters (aka jsonp), there are
practical URL length limits. Bigger tokens consume more network resources,
which can be a severe issue for mobile devices. Likewise, not defining the
token size makes it harder to client developers to size their database.

That being said, given that the underlying APIs that are protected by OAuth2
are generally proprietary and are not interoperable, it¹s really up to the
Service Provider to determine the appropriate requirements and limits for
their Access tokens.

Allen

On 4/12/10 2:23 AM, "Anthony Nadalin" <tonynad@microsoft.com> wrote:

> +1
>  
> 
> From: oauth-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Torsten Lodderstedt
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:57 PM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: OAuth WG
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Defining a maximum token length?
>  
> +1 no restriction, please
> 
> 256 is much too short
> 
> Am 10.04.2010 07:16, schrieb Eran Hammer-Lahav:
> I would argue that for the spec to provide a token size limit that is greater
> than 255 would cause more harm than good. This is not to say I am supporting
> the 255 limit (I take no position on the matter  yeah, that happens rarely).
> If the spec provided a 4K limit, client libraries are likely to codify that
> which will make them extremely wasteful for 99% of the popular cases on the
> web today. A 4K limit doesn¹t really improve interop since the limit is so
> high, no one is likely to issue even bigger tokens with public APIs.
> 
> The 255 limit keeps the token size within the most effective database field
> size limit for this type of identifier. If we cannot reach consensus on this
> size limit, I don¹t think the spec should say anything. However, if I wrote a
> client library, I would make it use a 255 default size limit and require a
> custom configuration to enable it to use something else.
> 
> So my proposal is 255 or no size guidance/restriction.
> 
> EHL
> 
> 
> On 4/9/10 4:49 PM, "Allen Tom" <atom@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> I think a good precedent would be to use the HTTP Cookie size limit, which
> is 4KB.
> 
> An OAuth Access Token is like an HTTP Authorization cookie. They're both
> bearer tokens that are used as a credentials for a client to access
> protected resources on behalf of the end user.
> 
> All Oauth clients have to implement HTTP anyway, so 4KB sounds like a
> reasonable limit.
> 
> Allen
> 
> 
> 
>> > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Luke Shepard <lshepard@facebook.com> wrote:
> 
>>> >>
>>> >> So, what is a reasonable limit for the token length?  1k? 2k? 4k? 5mb? I
>>> >> suggest some language like this:
>>> >>
>>> >>
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