hi Andrei,

AFAIU session cookie management is beyond the scope of the OAuth2 specification.

regards

antonio

On Apr 24, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Andrei Shakirin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My name is Andrei Shakirin, I am working with OAuth2 implementation in Apache 
> CXF project.
> Could you please help me to verify my understanding regarding of using 
> session cookies in OAuth2 flow.
> OAuth2 specification mentions session cookies in:
> 1) Section 3.1. Authorization Endpoint as possible way to authenticate 
> resource owner against authorization server
> 2) Section 10.12. Cross-Site Request Forgery as possible attack where 
> end-user follows a malicious URI to a trusting server including a valid 
> session cookie
> 
> My current understanding is:
> a) using sessions between user-agent and authorization server is optional and 
> authorization server is not obligated to keep user state (in case if 
> user-agent provide authentication information with every request).
> b) in case if sessions are used (because of any reasons), authorization 
> server have to care about additional protection like hidden form fields in 
> order to uniquely identify the actual authorization request.
> 
> Is this correct?
> 
> Regards,
> Andrei.
> 
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