I need to revisit a question that came up about two months ago. I thought I had a clear understanding of when client_id was and wasn't included in access token requests but drafts 18/19 seemed to have changed things (or my understanding of 16 was wrong).
The question is, when is client_id a required parameter on requests to the token endpoint and when can/should it be omitted? In -16 I was under the impression that client_id was always to be included even when using HTTP Basic or other means of authentication. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-16#section-3.1 and http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg06328.html for example. But the text and examples in -18/-19 would suggest that client_id is to be omitted when using HTTP Basic. Text in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-19#section-2.4.1 and example in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-19#section-4.1.3 I don't have a strong preference for either direction but do feel it needs to be more explicitly spelled out. Scenarios that should be accounted for are, for both clients in possession of a client password and clients without, using client_id/client_secret, using HTTP Basic and using other means of authentication/identification. _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
