[OAUTH-WG] best practices for storing access token for implicit clients

Doug Tangren <d.tangren@gmail.com> Fri, 01 July 2011 01:54 UTC

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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] best practices for storing access token for implicit clients
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What is the current recommended practice of storing an implicit client's
access_tokens? LocalStorage, im mem and re-request auth on every browser
refresh?

-Doug Tangren
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