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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Josh Roesslein <[email protected]> wrote:
> How will calling this 1.1 slow down the upgrade process? All libraries need
> to change to cover the new spec, so it doesn't matter what we call it.
> SP's can still support older clients by running 1.0 and 1.1 specs. This
> allows for older clients to perform upgrades to 1.1 before cutting them off.
> SP checks the oauth_version string in the request token request and then
> uses the correct library version to complete the flow.
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Breno de Medeiros <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Since there is no discovery supported in OAuth, even if the version is
>> incremented, there is no way to know if an SP or consumer has upgraded
>> without actually running the flow.
>>
>> If you increment the version number, you will have to make a lot more
>> code changes in each library to configure behavior, and will slow down
>> adoption of the fix and complicate a transitional period where folks
>> might want to support the older flow with some mitigation
>> features/stronger warnings until it is safe to break compatibility.
>>
>> If we want better security, we go with the option that moves us
>> forward fastest. The easiest way to abandon 1.0 flow is to get
>> everybody upgraded to 1.0A. And developers are complaining that
>> incrementing the version number will slow things down.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM, David Parry <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > seriously, I don't understand the reluctance to increment
>> > oauth_version. The new implementation is going to require work from
>> > both SPs and consumers, and neither is really going to know if other
>> > has upgraded without actually running the flow. At least, by
>> > incrementing the version, both the SP and the Consumer definitively
>> > know the required flow.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --Breno
>>
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