> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Manger, James H
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:18 PM
> To: Yaron Goland; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Proposal for text for section 2
> 
> Yaron,
> 
> > how can you ding client assertions credentials for doing exactly what client
> basic credentials do?
> 
> I don't like client basic credentials in request bodies either. We should 
> ditch
> that as well. I am sure I have dinged it in the past. It offers too little 
> benefit
> for the cost of confusing APIs (& code) by mixing the content and
> authentication. And you lose a well-established discovery method: a
> response with WWW-Authenticate: BASIC ....

You can still do that. The client_id and client_secret parameters are nothing 
more than a convenient tool for the most common use case. Also, if you noticed, 
Basic is not the primary method and the parameters are secondary. That's as far 
as consensus allowed and I would like to consider this item closed.

EHL
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