Hi Godwin/ Tharindu,
Thank you for the explanation.

Regards,
Isuru



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On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Tharindu Edirisinghe <[email protected]>
wrote:

> OAuth spec's section [1] doesn't mention the rules on how to generate the
> client ID and secret values. What it says is the values should be URL
> encoded. In that case, if it has spaces, those would be converted to %20
> and replaced the spaces, which should be OK.
>
> So, IMO it's totally up to the developers of the OAuth authorization
> servers to decide the format of the client ID and secret. May be that's why
> different OAuth providers support/doesn't support the spaces.
>
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-2.3.1
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Godwin Shrimal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Isuru,
>>
>> AFAIK we don't want to allow spaces for ClientID and Secret since OAuth
>> ClientID and Secret cannot have spaces. @Fara: Please confirm.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Godwin
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Isuru Uyanage <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> When configuring external IDPs through connectors, we have client secret
>>> and client ID. Some connectors like Facebook, Pinterest allows space
>>> character in the client ID and service provider login is successful.
>>>
>>> Basecamp, Google, LinkedIn, MailChimp and etc connectors do not allow
>>> spaces in the Client ID nor did in the Client Secret.
>>>
>>> Amazon does not allow spaces in the Client ID but it allows spaces in
>>> the Client Secret.
>>>
>>> I want to clarify how it really should be. Shouldn't any of connectors
>>> allow the space in the Client ID and Client secret?
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Thanks and Best Regards,*
>>>
>>> *Isuru Uyanage*
>>> *Software Engineer - QA | WSO2*
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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