Which is exactly why I was withholding a vote until there was more
information.

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 7:25 AM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 09:04:34 -0500
> Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That being said, with Ryan's issue, he is using a feature
> > (cross-language auth in Flight) that isn't being tested. The Flight
> > integration tests do not use authentication AFAIK so I'm not surprised
> > to hear that there may be an issue with it.
>
> OTOH, it's a bit unlikely.  Flight authentication is implemented is:
> - the Arrow codebase simply passes opaque tokens around
> - interpretation of tokens is handled by application code
> - marshalling of tokens is handled by Protocol Buffers
>
> So unless something silly is going on (such as "passing an empty string
> instead of the actual token") there's not much potential for
> auth interoperability issues in the core Flight codebase.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
>

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