[aerogear-dev] Basic/Digest Auth and JS

[Kris Borchers]

OK, so I am going to try to spell out the workflow as I see it working in JS. I would appreciate any feedback on whether or not this is crazy/wrong.

Create Basic or Digest authenticator
Must include a callback to be fired when a request to auth is received from server
Create pipe which uses this authenticator
Attempt read, save or remove on this pipe
Endpoint returns 401 with header indicating type of auth required
Need to research that this won't trigger the browser's native Basic/Digest auth handling
Fire user supplied auth callback passing it a reference to a "login" method that the user will pass the credentials collected in the auth callback
Use "login" method to construct appropriate response to server's 401
This is the fun part :-P
Server responds to auth attempt
Success - continue to process original read, write or remove
Error - trigger a user supplied auth failure callback

Thanks!

On May 22, 2013, at 8:44 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/21/2013 08:22 AM, Kris Borchers wrote:
>> So, having seem the plans around Basic and Digest auth for Android and iOS, I am wondering if there is any need for that on JS. Typically that is handled by the browser and them the server maintains the session so I would lean toward not needing anything specific in JS for these types of auth. Input welcome.
> It may be useful is someone tries to embed it in a Node container or 
> write a Windows 8 app, Gnome 3 extension, etc.
>> 
>> Kris
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