[aerogear-dev] External vs Embedded browser for OAuth2 libs and Cordova plugin

[Daniel Passos]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Guys,
>
> Erik did some great progress on OAuth2 iOS plugin using external browser
> approach. Some workarounds are needed for iOS because of Swift based plugin
> and are documented here:
> https://github.com/edewit/aerogear-oauth2-plugin#workaround-for-ios
>
> As descibed in the readme instruction:
> https://github.com/edewit/aerogear-oauth2-plugin#aerogear-oauth2-cordova
> I think the best approach is to go external browser, one of the main issue
> with embedded view is that the user stills have to enter credentials in
> native app. Although it might offer a better UX experience not switching
> apps, it’s seen as less secure. My preference would be to go external. On
> iOS, the re-enter app is solved using URI schema. The same approach is used
> fro Cordova plugin, the schema is configured in the config.xml cordova file.
>
> @summersp @passos do you have plan to move to external browser?
>

Yes => https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-319


> Erik started working on Oauth2 Android with embedded view, but if we’re
> planning to move to ext. browser maybe it's worth putting the plugin
> implementation on hold untill we got that?
>
> ++
> Corinne
> —————
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>
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