Re: [OAUTH-WG] nits about definition of using form parameters

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 19 June 2012 06:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] nits about definition of using form parameters
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On 2012-06-19 00:17, Eran Hammer wrote:
> I believe the UTF-8 piece came from Brian Eaton a while back because of some security issue identified at Google.
> ...

If there are security reasons to send an undefined media type parameter 
then they really should be spelled out.

Best regards, Julian