On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The assertion grant type is really the grant type extension point. Libraries 
> should treat it as a way to support custom grant types. One of the things I 
> would like to see someone draft is how to use OAuth 1.0 tokens to obtain 
> OAuth 2.0 tokens using the assertion type. For example, the assertion type 
> can be "http://oauth.net/1.0/token"; , and the assertion itself is some form 
> of the token and signature (or secrets) concatenated into a string (this will 
> maintain the 1.0 security while transitioning to 2.0). This is just a straw 
> man.
>
> It is important that libraries support this extensibility with some form of a 
> hook or handler so that clients can make requests using assertions from 
> outside the library.

An OAuth 1 token assertion as described above would achieve the same
thing as the suggested bridge endpoint. Do you see any advantages on
using an assertion as opposed to a standard OAuth 1 signed request?

Marius
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