It sounds like it's specifying *almost* the same thing, but in a different way. 
Why is there friction? Is it fashion, NIH or something more substantial?

Cheers,


On 20/11/2011, at 4:08 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 4:57 PM
> 
>> The "normalized request string" contains the request-URI and values
>> extracted from the Host header. Be aware that intermediaries can and do
>> change these; e.g., they may change an absolute URI to a relative URI in the
>> request-line, without affecting the semantics of the request. See [1] for
>> details (it covers other problematic conditions too).
>> 
>> It would be more robust to calculate an effective request URI, as in [2].
>> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-14#section-4.3
> 
> Using the effective request URI has proved to be a significant point of 
> friction in OAuth 1.0. I would rather note that intermediaries can change the 
> request URI and that the server must reverse those changes based on what the 
> values should have been if they were received from the client directly.
> 
> EHL

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