fix: double-decoding of client credentials in request body #434
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I noticed that client credentials are URL-decoded after being extracted from the POST body form, which was already URL-decoded by Go. The accompanying error message suggests this was copied and pasted from the HTTP basic authorization header handling, which is the only place where the extra URL-decoding was needed (as per the OAuth 2.0 spec). The result is that client credentials containing
%
-prefixed sequences, whether valid sequences or not, are going to fail validation.Proposed changes
Remove the extra URL decoding. Add tests that ensure client credentials work with special characters in both the HTTP basic auth header and in the request body.
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