Breno de Medeiros wrote: > > The consumer key is an independent issue of pre-registration. Say a > site hosts multiple apps. The realm indicates the site, the consumer > key indicates the app. The presence of the consumer key (even in a > scenario without pre-registration requirements) is useful to indicate > to the user information about the request. > > This turns out to be particularly important in the un-registered case, > where the consumer could provide a descriptive key. In the case of > registered consumers, this will probably not be used to describe the > request in a user-visible way, but is useful for other purposes. > > Making it optional actually hurts interoperability. The idea is that > it can be a self-reported value in the case of unregistered consumers. >
Can you give a concrete example of what you're arguing for? Are you imagining... oauth.consumer_key=Martin's Amazing Social Applicatioon or did you have something else in mind? _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs
