+1 for consistent examples.
-- Justin
On 02/06/2012 02:35 PM, Eran Hammer wrote:
Sending to the right place.
*From:*Thomas, Christopher (LLU) [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Monday, February 06, 2012 11:33 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Mail regarding draft-ietf-oauth-v2
Hello,
I'm looking into implementing the Oauth2 spec for a work project and I
think I ran into an issue with the version 23 documentation. According
to the Oauth2 documentation, a client can send it's credentials one of
two ways: 1) via HTTP Basic Auth 2) via the request body parameters.
Section 2.3.1 says "....the HTTP Basic authentication scheme as
defined in [RFC2617] to authenticate with the authorization server.
The client identifier is used as the username, and the client password
is used as the password."
The example given in Section 2.3.1 is:
Authorization: Basic czZCaGRSa3F0MzpnWDFmQmF0M2JW
According to RFC2617 Section 2, the value of the credential is a
base64 representation of "username:password" (no quotes). This means
when the value is decoded, it is "s6BhdRkqt3:gX1fBat3bV". So,
according to the HTTP Basic Auth example, the client_id is s6BhdRkqt3
and the client_secret is gX1fBat3bV. Just below the basic auth example
is the request body example:
POST /token HTTP/1.1
Host: server.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8
grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=tGzv3JOkF0XG5Qx2TlKWIA
&client_id=s6BhdRkqt3&client_secret=7Fjfp0ZBr1KtDRbnfVdmIw
In the request body example, the client_secret does not match the
client_secret in the HTTP Basic Auth example. I think the two should
match for consistency. I propose the change that is in the patch
attached to this email.
Thank you for considering my suggestion.
Chris
Christopher Thomas, BA --- Systems Analyst/
/LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY | Information Systems
Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California 92350
x87866 or (909) 558-7866
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