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Re: [OAUTH-WG] draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-19 - Examples

Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> Mon, 28 April 2014 08:27 UTC

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Hi Brian,

you are entirely correct. I believe I read the paragraph not carefully
enough. For some reason I read octal rather than octet and that makes,
of course, a huge difference.

Sorry. My fault.

Ciao
Hannes

On 04/25/2014 04:22 PM, Brian Campbell wrote:
> Note that the draft is showing an *octet sequence* with each individual
> octet being shown as decimal value. It doesn't state anything about
> using octal, the base-8 number system. Those octets also show
> unambiguously what is being base64url encoded (including the line
> endings via "13, 10") - no matter how the unencoded headers or bodies
> are shown in the draft, there's going to be potential confusion about
> what white space and line breaks is or is not to be included in the
> encoding and serialization so giving the octet sequence alleviates that.
> It's maybe also worth noting that the JOSE suite of specs all use the
> same notation and text in their examples.

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