I don't know about not having usernames in the url, but are you using an OAuthenticator (like GoogleOAuthenticator)? The authenticate function is likely what's choosing the email as the username. You can subclass the OAuthenticator and modify that function to generate whatever you want as the username.
On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 7:47 PM Ray Hilton <ray.hil...@eliiza.com.au> wrote: > Sorry, I should have been clearer! > > In JupyterHub, it uses ones username in the url, which, if you use full > email addresses, looks like: > > /user/r...@example.com/lab > > Which should be fine, except Theia insists on encoding that @ as %40 for > its websockets, and that doesnt work (CHP doesnt mind, but I think the > jupyter instance does. Anyway, I was also thinking that perhaps it's not a > great idea to have the username in the url in the first place as it exposes > personal information. > > So, I was wondering if there was a way of simply not having usernames in > the jupyterhub structure, but open to other ideas. Perhaps I could > generate a user-id on first auth based on the user's email address and that > would avoid this problem, but it would make for uglier urls. > > Ray > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 11:11 PM s...@draves.org <s...@draves.org> wrote: > >> What URLs are you talking about? What Theia app do you mean? >> >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 12:29 AM Ray Hilton <ray.hil...@eliiza.com.au> >> wrote: >> >>> Basically, I feel it's a little unnecessary to have the username (in my >>> case, the entire email address) in the url. It also leads to people >>> exposing their email if they copy/paste links. However, the main reason i >>> want to use it is because some apps (like Theia) make assumptions about how >>> to encode the @ in the username (it encodes to %40) which then breaks the >>> websocket connection. I have tried solving this in other ways, but I >>> figured why not just remove the username completely? >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> Ray >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Project Jupyter" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to jupyter+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to jupyter@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAJ%3DX9awAqTALJGvJQtbLih6BDBvYyXKnxA8oxvGgwcLSVAcfsA%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAJ%3DX9awAqTALJGvJQtbLih6BDBvYyXKnxA8oxvGgwcLSVAcfsA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> -- >> *CTRL-labs.com <http://CTRL-labs.com>* >> ScottDraves.com <http://www.ScottDraves.com> >> @Scott_Draves <http://twitter.com/scott_draves> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Project Jupyter" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jupyter+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to jupyter@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAMaD%2Bf7prierVPygq2TG2q_AzNz4ORmfZagi4%3DD6hrrxwf4-Jw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAMaD%2Bf7prierVPygq2TG2q_AzNz4ORmfZagi4%3DD6hrrxwf4-Jw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Jupyter" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jupyter+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to jupyter@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAJ%3DX9aw4-x1FnQraZBz9j-W0h4NtK-ZB0rVW72RgN%3Dot8JM4UQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAJ%3DX9aw4-x1FnQraZBz9j-W0h4NtK-ZB0rVW72RgN%3Dot8JM4UQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jupyter+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to jupyter@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAOFssWyxCNjAnbu0xSBXb64F%3D86vaLtMz2%2Bhn%3DZGYuxUQtyO4w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
