Hi Jean-Paul,
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:24:20 -0600, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 May 2011, 06:47 pm, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi gang, >> >> Per a short chat with exarkun (thanks exarkun), I'm posting this to the >> list for discussion. >> >> A project upon which I am working requires a twisted.web service that >> allows a user to delegate authentication/authorization to a third >> party, >> e.g., Facebook, Twitter, et cetera. In so doing, I've found myself >> missing nevow.guard, since web.guard currently only has out-of-the-box >> support for HTTP Auth. I'd like to see web.guard expand to cover more >> kinds of auth, such as form-based auth or the OAuth-based solutions >> coming >> from so many social graph sites. >> >> With this in mind, I asked exarkun about this, and he mentioned that >> the >> only thing he does not consider to be garbage in nevow.guard is the >> feature-set, and that I should port the features to web, discarding the >> baggage. >> >> I'd like to solicit the list for some guidance as to what those >> features >> are, or should be, and hopefully end up with a ticket describing the >> features to be implemented, which I will then attempt to implement and >> contribute to twisted.web. > > Hiya Daniel, > > This didn't generate as much discussion as I hoped. :) However, I think > you went ahead and started a project - txsomethingsomething? How is > that working out? > > Jean-Paul There is a project, https://github.com/minskmaz/txWebAuth, to which I contributed a tiny amount of code. Neither the main author nor myself have done much to progress the work, but there is a rudimentary design in place at least. The only major difference between txWebAuth and guard is some widening of the ICredentialFactory interface, which is necessary to allow for form-based and OAuth flows. Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ Twisted-web mailing list [email protected] http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-web
