To request an Access Token in this model, the Consumer makes an HTTP request to the Service Provider's Access Token URL. The authentication request contains [nine] parameters contained in the HTTP Authorization header or as URL parameters. Parameter names and values must be "percent-encoded" to handle characters in different character sets. The request should be performed using TLS, and should use HTTP POST.

Before granting an access token, the Service Provider must ensure that the request signature has been successfully verified as per OAuth, that a request with the supplied timestamp and nonce has never been received before, and that the supplied username and password match a User's credentials. If successful, the Service Provider generates an Access Token and Token Secret using a 200 Ok response and returns them in the HTTP response body.

After successfully receiving the Access Token and Token Secret, the Consumer is able to access the Protected Resources on behalf of the User as per section 7 of the OAuth core specification. In other words, the Access Token obtained here is no different in capability to the Access Token specified by OAuth. Once authenticated using the above process, the Consumer will sign all subsequent requests for the User's Protected Resources using the returned Token Secret.