[oauth] Affinity between access tokens and consumer identity

2010-02-01 Thread Onmyouji
I had a question on OAuth version 1.0a that I’m hoping you could help me find an answer to: It looks like to me that in the spec there is no requirement for some affinity between the Consumer Key/Consumer Secret, and the Access token. So here’s the scenario: for some services, Consumer may choose

Re: [oauth] Affinity between access tokens and consumer identity

2010-02-02 Thread Blaine Cook
On 1 February 2010 19:58, Onmyouji wrote: > It looks like to me that in the spec there is no requirement for some > affinity between the Consumer Key/Consumer Secret, and the Access > token. > > Is this something that is considered out of scope? You're right, there's no spec-mandated affinity. Ho

Re: [oauth] Affinity between access tokens and consumer identity

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Barnes
Blaine, Could you briefly describe what those cases are? I'm imagining something where you have one box that does the OAuth stuff and a separate one that actually accesses the resources; is that on the right track? --Richard On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Blaine Cook wrote: > On 1 February

Re: [oauth] Affinity between access tokens and consumer identity

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Messina
You could imagine the use case of a licensing server sitting separate from the service provider that validates whether someone has the proper rights to view certain content. That's one possibility... Sent from my iPhone 2G On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Richard Barnes wrote: Blaine, Cou

Re: [oauth] Affinity between access tokens and consumer identity

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Barnes
Ah, so there's use cases on both the consumer and the SP side. That's worth noting, thanks! --Richard On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Chris Messina wrote: > You could imagine the use case of a licensing server sitting separate from > the service provider that validates whether someone has the