How does this work if there are two people using the same computer and the 
other user is the one currently logged into the server?

I think the client should be required to tell the server who the user is when 
using immediate to avoid this problem.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Hardt [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 8:01 PM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: Torsten Lodderstedt; OAuth WG ([email protected])
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] 'immediate' without identity
> 
> On 2010-05-23, at 8:40 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> > But back to my original email, what are the use cases for 'immediate'
> without identity?
> 
> 
> The client may not have any indication of which user it is, but want to check 
> if
> it is a user they already know. They can do a check immediate, get the token,
> then make an API call to see which user it is.
> 
> This would be the case if the user has used the client, but is now on a
> different machine or has cleared cookies.
> 
> -- Dick

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