[Snowy] Best way to figure out OAuth authentication Realm

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

Hi all,

So I'm cleaning up all this OAuth stuff, getting it ready to push out,
and there is one thing I'm not totally sure how to do correctly:
getting the OAuth authentication realm.

The reason I need this is that I have decided in Tomboy to put all the
OAuth parameters in the HTTP Authorization header, which is the
recommended approach according to the OAuth 1.0 spec [0].  To
construct the header correctly, I need to know the Realm.  In the case
of Snowy, it is simply "Snowy".

What is the proper way to ask a server for its OAuth authentication
realm?  Is there a standard HTTPish way to do this?  Or should we add
this information to the Root resource in the REST API?

I may end up pushing all of this code initially with the assumption
that the Realm is always "Snowy", and we can fix it when we know the
best way.  I apologize if this is kind of a n00b question, but, well,
that's me.  ;-)

Best,
Sandy

[0] http://oauth.net/core/1.0#consumer_req_param