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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-69709

QOAuth1 generates non-RFC 5849 compliant request

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P3: Somewhat important
    • 5.12.0 Beta 4
    • 5.9, 5.10.1, 5.11.1
    • None
    • Diagnosed over Qt 5.10.1 on macOS 10.12; checked with the source of qt/qtnetworkauth.
    • 51a0b723032640e3b3f99adf3e392ed7d8ceec33

    Description

      According to RFC 5849 ยง3.5,

      When making an OAuth-authenticated request, protocol parameters as well as any other parameter using the "oauth_" prefix SHALL be included in the request using one and only one of the following locations, listed in order of decreasing preference:
      1. The HTTP "Authorization" header field as described in Section 3.5.1.
      2. The HTTP request entity-body as described in Section 3.5.2.

      However, in QOAuth1::continueGrantWithVerifier, oauth_verifier is being sent as a HTTP POST parameter, which is not allowed in the RFC standard. It should be appended to the Authorization headers instead.

      Also, in QOAuth1Private::requestToken line 179,

      headers.insert(Key::oauthCallback, q->callback());

      oauth_callback was inserted into request header regardless of the current status. It is not causing problems for now, but is still an uncommon practice and possibly need to be fixed.

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