Take a look at RFC 6750 "The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer
Token Usage" - particularly section 3:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750#section-3 which describes using the
"WWW-Authenticate" response header field in response to a request with
an invalid/insufficient/missing/etc token.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Takahiko Kawasaki <daru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question. Is there any standardized specification about
> error responses from protected resource endpoints?
>
> "RFC 6749, 7.2. Error Response" says "the specifics of such error
> responses are beyond the scope of this specification", but I'm
> wondering if OAuth WG has done something for that.
>
> >From error responses, I'd like to know information about:
>
>   (1) Usability (active or expired? (or not exist?))
>   (2) Refreshability (associated usable refresh token exists?)
>   (3) Sufficiency (usable but lacking necessary permissions?)
>
> For example, I'm expecting an error response like below with
> "400 Bad Request" or "403 Forbidden".
>
>   {
>     "error":"...",
>     "error_description":"...",
>     "error_uri":"...",
>     "usable": true,
>     "refreshable": true,
>     "sufficient": false
>   }
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Takahiko Kawasaki
>
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