Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-06 Thread Josh Mandel
Hi Adam, I'm not 100% sure what you're envisioning as an alternative to the implicit flow, but if I'm reading between the lines of your question correctly, there are two key parts to the answer, because the implicit flow is designed to accomplish two key goals (vs. the authorization code grant):

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-06 Thread John Bradley
It isn’t an extra step, the call back via 302 has to be to a URI in the location header. The JS loaded by that URI may already be cached in the browser as part of the APP. The cached JS typically extracts the token and uses it. The token is never passed to the server where the JS is loaded f

[OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-06 Thread Adam Lewis
Hi, Having spent most of my time with native apps and web apps, I now am looking at use cases where I need to implement a user-agent-based app. The Implicit flow seems to be optimized for this. To test my understanding, this flow is for a JavaScript client (or similar) executing within a web