Re: [oauth] Best Practice

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Osman
the location of a page through the properties. Being able to view the URL in the location bar is useful, but is it strictly necessary? Regards, Willem Jan -Original Message- From: oauth@googlegroups.com [mailto:oa...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Osman Sent: Sunday, January

Re: [oauth] Best Practice

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Osman
, Paul Osman p...@eval.ca wrote: Hi Willem, While it's obviously not something that is covered in the spec (User-Agent specific details are understandably out of scope), I would say that it is strictly necessary. It gets into the spirit vs the letter of a specification. In my view, using

Re: [oauth] Best Practice

2010-01-17 Thread Paul Osman
If the user cannot reliably see who is presenting the authorization-sign in window, they have no idea who they are giving their credentials to. This makes the whole point of delegated authorization moot, so I would consider it absolutely necessary to direct the user to a browser window where

[oauth] Re: (request access token) Should oauth_verifier be in the same place than other oauth_ parameters?

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Osman
Hi Florent, I certainly couldn't see anything in the spec that addresses sending OAuth parameters using a combination of GET, POST or Authorization headers. While I certainly think that it's a strange thing to do (seems like more work for the Consumer Developer), I think as a Service

[oauth] Re: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Osman
Hi Jared, You'll probably want to try the Google Accounts API Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Accounts-API This list is generally for discussion of the OAuth protocol and not specific implementations. Cheers, -- Paul Osman On 14-Sep-09, at 12:21 PM, Jared wrote