One of the results at the OAuth meeting on Friday was that non-normative text 
describing how to use OAuth with native applications will be restored to the 
framework draft.  We could start with the text from past drafts, but it can 
likely be improved upon as well.

Marius, as someone who has extensively deployed an OAuth protocol with native 
apps, what would you like the draft to say about this?  (Others with actual 
deployments, please respond as well if you have things to add!)

                                Thanks,
                                -- Mike

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From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of 
Skylar Woodward
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:54 AM
To: Marius Scurtescu
Cc: Kris Selden; oauth@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Flowchart for legs of OAuth

I agree with Marius' points. We plan to support the auth-code flow for native 
apps as well.  There is no reason why native apps can't perform a successful 
auth-code flow, they just do so without client credentials.  However, the spec 
doesn't make it clear that this is viable option.

skylar


On Apr 4, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Marius Scurtescu wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Kris Selden <kris.sel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A typical iPhone app cannot be shipped with a client secret and rightly or 
>> wrongly users expect to only have to enter their credentials once.
>> 
>> What is the best profile to use for an app that can't have a client secret 
>> and needs a refresh token or a long lived access token?
> 
> The authorization code grant, aka web server flow.
> 
> The spec is misleading in this respect IMO.
> 
> Marius
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