On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:40 AM rupert THURNER <[email protected]> wrote:
> interesting, never thought about it. i found an entry on stackexchange > confirming what you said. additionally it states that oauth is not for > authenticaiton. oauth's purpose is to access users resources from some > resource provider, while openid_connect should be used to authenticate. > does openid_connect work with wikipedia and is it the best option > currently? > OpenID Connect uses OAuth 2 and Wikipedia only supports OAuth 1 currently. We have a custom authentication endpoint that works in a similar way to OpenID Connect: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers#Identifying_the_user _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
