Re: [oauth] HTTPS + Plaintext Versus HTTP + HMAC-SHA1

2010-01-30 Thread John Panzer
Yes, that's what it means. Hopefully any https latency is minimal, at least for apis where you don't have to drag every subsidiary resource in via https too. Use HTTP keep alives; all overhead is on initial connection. On Saturday, January 30, 2010, rob ganly wrote: > hi david, > from what i ga

Re: [oauth] HTTPS + Plaintext Versus HTTP + HMAC-SHA1

2010-01-30 Thread rob ganly
hi david, from what i gather it is stating not that you MUST use plaintext over HTTPS but that if you are using plaintext then you should ONLY do so over HTTPS. >> and PLAINTEXT only for secure (HTTPS) requests. i agree that it isn't entirely clear in the documentation, but that's what i *think*

[oauth] HTTPS + Plaintext Versus HTTP + HMAC-SHA1

2010-01-30 Thread David King
Currently I'm using HMAC-SHA1 over HTTP and have been considering adding in SSL to my app, but am slightly confused as to what is more appropriate. Obviously I'll be losing a *lot* of speed with SSL, and from reading the specification I'm unclear whether it's actually necessary. For example: http: