Re: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests

Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> Thu, 10 June 2010 17:42 UTC

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From: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
To: Marius Scurtescu <mscurtescu@google.com>, Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:42:21 -0700
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
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But in that case, all the other oauth_* parameters are missing. It's trivial.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marius Scurtescu [mailto:mscurtescu@google.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:39 AM
> To: Paul Lindner
> Cc: Eran Hammer-Lahav; OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org)
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
> 
> I run into the same issue. In section "4.2. URI Query Parameter", it would
> help if the parameter name, oauth_token, was different from OAuth 1.
> 
> Marius
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> wrote:
> > I am talking about the resource server. Specifically I want to be able
> > to quickly determine if an incoming request is 1.0a vs 2.0.  And since
> > this is a library it can't make a lot of assumptions about the
> > specific environment it's running in.
> > At first I thought I would check the oauth_version parameter.  It
> > turns out the 1.0a spec says that it is optional.  The only one that
> > is required for 1.0a is oauth_signature_method.
> > Sadly we're long past time to change the spec to optimize for this use-case.
> >  (It would have been better to have a parameter for oauth 2.0 that is
> > distinct from 1.0a)  At the very least this message will live on in
> > the mailing list archives -- at best we document the proper way to
> > distinguish between the two versions somewhere.
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
> > <eran@hueniverse.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The request is very different on the resource server. On the
> >> authorization server, why would you use the same endpoint?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> EHL
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: oauth-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-bounces@ietf.org] On
> >> Behalf Of Paul Lindner
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:24 AM
> >> To: OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org)
> >> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> As I've been working through our oauth2 implementation I've noticed
> >> that it's not easy to disambiguate OAuth 1.0a vs 2.0 API calls based
> >> on the request parameters alone.   Based on some investigative at the
> >> Shindig project it appears that the only standard way to to determine
> >> 1.0a vs 2.0 is by checking for the oauth_signature_method
> parameter.  More info here:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-1361
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Has anyone else considered this use case?  How did you solve it?
> >>
> >>
> >
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