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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's avatar
    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

Hi Greg-DB,

 

I was just wondering whether there's any update from the relevant team on the state of this and an ETA for a fix?

 

Thanks,

 

Andrew

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    Greg-DB
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    4 years ago

    I don't have an update on this quite yet, but I'll follow up here once I do.

    • andrewnicols's avatar
      andrewnicols
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      4 years ago

      Hi Greg-DB,

       

      I'm just wondering whether you have an update to this issue yet? It's been over a month now.

       

      Thanks,

       

      Andrew

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        Greg-DB
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        4 years ago

        andrewnicols This is still open with the team, but I don't any news on this yet. I'll let you know when I do.

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