On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Luke Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> One reason is that you may want to exchange tokens in a batch, whereas you 
> typically can only sign requests individually.

How does the assertion grant type help in this case? As far as I can
tell this also allows you to exchange only one token.

Marius


>
> On Jun 29, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Marius Scurtescu wrote:
>
>> 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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