On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Michael D Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Michael D Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> WordPress uses query parameters.  A WordPress plugin that enables
>> OAuth, though, would have to register new URL handlers with WordPress
>> to act as the token and end-user authorization endpoints.  Having done
>> so, the plugin would then have complete control over how to behave
>> under any query parameters, entity-body contents, or headers: core,
>> extension, site specific or otherwise.
>
> Actually, for a small minority of WordPress sites wanting to enable
> OAuth (those not supporting so called "pretty permalinks"), the
> WordPress plugin would need to internally reserve one query parameter
> to get the ball rolling.  Theoretically, that need leads to the
> possibility of conflict, but I'm not worried about it.

As far as I can tell pretty permalinks also use mod_rewrite so the PHP
code still sees the query parameter.

Yes, chances for conflict are very small, I agree.

Marius
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