Hi all,<div><br></div><div>We talked about basic profile section 2.2.6.1 on the call this morning, and Mike agreed to add a bit more helpful text in there that echoes the existing recommendation in RFC 6749 section 3.2 on using the authorization header to authenticate the client vs. including client credentials in the post body of the request sent to the endpoint.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On reading further, I think we could instead state that the possible ways that the client can authenticate to the Access Token Endpoint are listed in the Messages spec section 2.2.1, and that if a client is unsure which client authentication methods are supported, they can refer to a given openid provider's openid-configuration document, under the token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported element (described in Discovery section 3.2). The nice thing about referring to the messages and discovery specs rather than directly to the OAuth spec is that it introduces our simple vocabulary for the different types of client authentication, gives us a place to insert more guidance in the future, and also ties in the relationship with the discovery doc, so that if a developer wants to be more sophisticated they know where to look.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mike, if you've got something in bitbucket for this change let me know and I'll put this into the ticket rather than into email, I just wanted to get this on the record before I forgot.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Pamela</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:10px;color:rgb(42,42,42)"><font color="#343634" face="Tahoma" style="color:rgb(52,54,52);font-size:12px"><strong><span>Pamela Dingle</span></strong> | <span>Sr. Technical Architect</span></font><br>
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