Re: [OAUTH-WG] Removal: 'OAuth2' HTTP Authentication Scheme

2011-01-19 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
>> On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: >> >>> OAuth is an authorization protocol not an authentication protocol. With the >> exception of the client password credentials passed in the form-encoded >> body, the protocol is completely authentication agnostic for both client >> aut

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Removal: 'OAuth2' HTTP Authentication Scheme

2011-01-18 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: > OAuth is an authorization protocol not an authentication protocol. With the > exception of the client password credentials passed in the form-encoded body, > the protocol is completely authentication agnostic for both client > authentica

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Removal: 'OAuth2' HTTP Authentication Scheme

2011-01-18 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
Could you clarify what the "confusing mess" part is? The cited reference [1] is not useful. It is good to adhere to the challenge-response model of 2617 for wider interoperability and discoverability (yes, WWW-Authenticate with a well-known scheme name helps discovery and lack thereof reduces p

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Comment on 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' for URI parameters

2010-12-19 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: > Using form-encoding to encode the URI query is well established and directly > based on the media type rules. No further specification is needed. > > EHL > >> -Original Message- >> From: Subbu Allamaraju [mail

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Comment on 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' for URI parameters

2010-12-02 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
#x27;s still a draft. > > EHL > >> -Original Message- >> From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf >> Of Subbu Allamaraju >> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:05 PM >> To: OAuth WG >> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Comment on &#

[OAUTH-WG] Comment on 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' for URI parameters

2010-12-01 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
Here is some feedback on the use of the 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' media type in the latest drafts (10 or 11). The draft refers to the 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' media type for encoding parameters into the query component of URIs. For instance, see 4.1 in draft 11 has "In ord

Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.0 server behavior

2010-11-29 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
Could you point which part of the spec specifies this (am looking at draft 10)? In any case, I would expect the auth server to include the scopes granted in the access token response to avoid any ambiguity. On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: > #2. Asking for scope on the acce

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Next Steps

2010-03-25 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Brian Eaton wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Subbu Allamaraju wrote: >> Just curious - why can't the client check the Date header? > > Yes, that works, but lots of clients don't realize it is possible. In other words, this is par

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Next Steps

2010-03-25 Thread Subbu Allamaraju
Just curious - why can't the client check the Date header? Subbu On Mar 24, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Paul Lindner wrote: Right now if a client with an inaccurate clock makes an OAuth call they are rejected. OAuth Problem Reporting includes a mechanism to send the server's concept of 'now' to t