[keycloak-dev] Shortening URLs

[Bill Burke]

On 1/23/2015 6:23 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> Our URLs are quite long, examples:
>
> * http://localhost:8080/auth/realms/master/protocols/openid-connect/login
> * http://localhost:8080/auth/realms/master/account
>
> We could remove the 'realms' part and 'protocols' parts couldn't we?
>
> * http://localhost:8080/auth/master/oidc/login
> * http://localhost:8080/auth/master/account
>
> That would require moving everything under a realm and I guess we'd need to hard-wire the protocols, but I think that should be fine.
>

Wouldn't work for multiple reasons.

* protocols/* exists to be able to plugin different protocols (oidc, 
saml, etc.)
* Because of the crappy way JAX-RS dispatch algorithm handles wildcards 
for both resource classes and resource locators we need both a "realms" 
and "protocols" qualifier.

Its really funny you bring this up now because I've renewed my argument 
with JAX-RS JSR just 2 minutes ago!  Synchronicity!


> We also need to make sure we can just the root context:
>
> * http://localhost:8080/master/oidc/login
> * http://localhost:8080/master/account
>
> We can also introduce other mechanisms to select the realm. For example a server with single realm can just omit it altogether:
>
> * http://localhost:8080/oidc/login
> * http://localhost:8080/account
>
> And we could allow setting what domains uses what realms:
>
> * http://keycloak-master/oidc/login
> * http://keycloak-other/oidc/login
>

You don't think its better to have URLS be consistent?


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