Wouldn't it make sense to require the oauth_version parameter under 2.0 for resource calls so that the two versions can be distinguished?

Rob

Paul Lindner wrote:
If you're routing requests with a load balancer it's not so trivial. Instead of a substring match you're talking about a regex with negative lookahead matching -- that's why the presence of the signature param is essential to distinguishing between 2.0/1.0a.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <e...@hueniverse.com <mailto:e...@hueniverse.com>> wrote:

    But in that case, all the other oauth_* parameters are missing.
    It's trivial.

    EHL

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Marius Scurtescu [mailto:mscurte...@google.com
    <mailto:mscurte...@google.com>]
    > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:39 AM
    > To: Paul Lindner
    > Cc: Eran Hammer-Lahav; OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org
    <mailto:oauth@ietf.org>)
    > Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
    >
    > I run into the same issue. In section "4.2. URI Query
    Parameter", it would
    > help if the parameter name, oauth_token, was different from OAuth 1.
    >
    > Marius
    >
    >
    >
    > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Paul Lindner <lind...@inuus.com
    <mailto:lind...@inuus.com>> wrote:
    > > I am talking about the resource server. Specifically I want to
    be able
    > > to quickly determine if an incoming request is 1.0a vs 2.0.
     And since
    > > this is a library it can't make a lot of assumptions about the
    > > specific environment it's running in.
    > > At first I thought I would check the oauth_version parameter.  It
    > > turns out the 1.0a spec says that it is optional.  The only
    one that
    > > is required for 1.0a is oauth_signature_method.
    > > Sadly we're long past time to change the spec to optimize for
    this use-case.
    > >  (It would have been better to have a parameter for oauth 2.0
    that is
    > > distinct from 1.0a)  At the very least this message will live
    on in
    > > the mailing list archives -- at best we document the proper way to
    > > distinguish between the two versions somewhere.
    > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
    > > <e...@hueniverse.com <mailto:e...@hueniverse.com>>
    > > wrote:
    > >>
    > >> The request is very different on the resource server. On the
    > >> authorization server, why would you use the same endpoint?
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> EHL
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org <mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org>
    [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org <mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org>] On
    > >> Behalf Of Paul Lindner
    > >> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:24 AM
    > >> To: OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org <mailto:oauth@ietf.org>)
    > >> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Identifying OAuth 2.0 vs 1.0 requests
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> Hi,
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> As I've been working through our oauth2 implementation I've
    noticed
    > >> that it's not easy to disambiguate OAuth 1.0a vs 2.0 API
    calls based
    > >> on the request parameters alone.   Based on some
    investigative at the
    > >> Shindig project it appears that the only standard way to to
    determine
    > >> 1.0a vs 2.0 is by checking for the oauth_signature_method
    > parameter.  More info here:
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-1361
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> Has anyone else considered this use case?  How did you solve it?
    > >>
    > >>
    > >
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