On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Johann Nallathamby <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sanjeewa,
>
> I think what we have is correct. According to the spec to refresh the
> access token the client needs to authenticate with the server (by sending
> client_id,client_secret) and send the refresh_token. This is what the API
> Manager doc also says. Only additional parameter the APIManager doc has is
> the scope which is optional according to the spec.
>
Hi Johann,
Thanks for the explanation. I thought authenticate means client
authentication with username and password for a given user.

>
> Thanks,
> Johann.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Sanjeewa Malalgoda <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> In our oauth2 implementation we have to send consumer key and secret key
>> (base 64 encoded) with refresh token to generate new access token. Its
>> explained in API manager document[1] in that manner. But AFAIK we do not
>> need to pass consumer and consumer secret keys to generate new access token
>> when we have refresh token and user credentials. Its explained in oauth2
>> spec[2] as follows. Please correct me if i understood this concept in a
>> wrong way.
>>
>>         The client requests a new access token by authenticating with
>>         the authorization server and presenting the refresh token.  The
>>         client authentication requirements are based on the client type
>>         and on the authorization server policies.
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/AM130/User+Tokens#UserTokens-Renewing
>> [2]http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-31
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>> *Sanjeewa Malalgoda*
>> WSO2 Inc.
>> Mobile : +14084122175 | +94713068779
>>
>>  <http://sanjeewamalalgoda.blogspot.com/>blog
>> :http://sanjeewamalalgoda.blogspot.com/<http://sanjeewamalalgoda.blogspot.com/>
>>
>
>


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