On 10 mrt 2009, at 12:54, Ben Laurie wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Marc Worrell <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>>
>> The library is character set agnostic, it just handles the names/
>> values as octet streams and therefore doesn't need any UTF-8  
>> encoding/
>> decoding steps.
>
> Except that the OAuth spec requires UTF-8 encoding, so that is a bug.

Not really.

The OAuth spec (editor's cut) says in 3.6 Percent Encoding:

> 1. Text values are first encoded as UTF-8 octets per [RFC3629] if  
> they are not already. This does not include binary values which are  
> not intended for human consumption.


So, which fields are for human consumption and which not?  I wouldn't  
let my library make this guess, so better not encode/decode at all and  
just pass what was given to it by the application.

- Marc

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