You were looking for use cases for immediate without identity. 

I agree that *if* the client does know the user, then it should tell the 
server. Are you saying that if the client does not know the user it should not 
use immediate?

-- Dick

On 2010-05-23, at 10:32 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> 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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