I'm a bit surprised by this question...

Accessing protected resources is outside the scope of v2 but both Bearer and 
MAC clearly allow any HTTP method.

EHL



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Freeman, Tim
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Can you use POST to access protected resources?
> 
> Section 7 of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-15 gives examples
> of how to access protected resources.  All of the examples use GET.
> 
> Our protected resources are identified by a query, which might be a few
> kilobytes.  I'm concerned that this may not fit inside the length limitation 
> on
> GET's for some web servers.  Our present implementation does a POST
> instead.
> 
> Definition-by-example is easy to understand, but it is not good at
> unambiguously specifying the boundary of permitted behavior.  Was the
> spec meant to allow using HTTP operations other than GET to access
> protected resources?
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