[oauth] 400/401 Questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mike Moore
Hey all, we're implementing OAuth and we have a differing of opinions on what the expected behavior is in a couple of instances. What is the proper HTTP status code to return for the following cases? 1) When a client uses the PLAINTEXT signature method over HTTP 2) When a client sends a value

[oauth] Javascript OAuth Wrap

2010-03-20 Thread ChrisMJ
Hello Ive recently started developing a desktop client for a new web application. Their API is based upon OAuth-WRAP. Does anyone one have any libraries or code relating to javascript development for this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups OAuth

Re: [oauth] Finer-grained access control in OAuth?

2010-03-20 Thread Chris Messina
Hi Gerald, Your question is a good one — and gets at some of the challenges inherent in user authorization models. Specifically: when a user grants authorization, how do you effectively scope access and communicate that to the user? Should you or the user need to later change the scope of

Re: [oauth] Finer-grained access control in OAuth?

2010-03-20 Thread Zhenhua Guo
Thanks for your explanation. Yes, I totally agree with you from the perspective of technology. Technically, service providers can come up with whatever policies about scope of authorization, allowed operations, etc. However, one drawback is that users may get confused when they access different

Re: [oauth] Finer-grained access control in OAuth?

2010-03-20 Thread Eve Maler
For what it's worth, the current UMA draft protocol (layered on WRAP for the moment) does propose a way for a client to express to the authorization server its desired scope of access, using a JSON format and presuming that the API has been documented in a resource-oriented way (resource