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andrewnicols
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4 years ago

OAuth2 empty scope does not behave correctly

According to the OAuth2 Authorization documentation , the `scope` is a nullable String:   scope String? This parameter allows your user to authorize a subset of the scopes selected in the App Con...
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    Greg-DB
    4 years ago

    andrewnicols The team has made this change and it is rolling out now. Hope this helps! 

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Greg-DB
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Thanks for the detailed writeup! That's very helpful. I'll ask the team to update the implementation to treat an empty scope parameter the same way as a missing scope parameter.

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andrewnicols
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4 years ago

Thanks for the update Greg-DB!

 

I look forward to the change. I'll mark this as accepted once there's a response as to if/when that will be implemented.

 

Cheers

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