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Re: [OAUTH-WG] Reevaluating Assumptions (Important!)



On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:52 PM, George Fletcher <gffletch at aol.com> wrote:
> One use case (I think I saw it mentioned somewhere else on the list) where
> we've used the URI parameters is when we want the server to sign a URL and
> then pass that signed value to the browser to load. This can be done with a
> simple 302 and the signed URL. Switching to just supporting the
> Authorization header will make this more difficult but probably not
> impossible.

Yep.  I've seen that done multiple places.

One more unexpected use of OAuth...

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