[aerogear-dev] Basic/Digest Auth and JS

[Summers Pittman]

On 05/22/2013 10:41 AM, Kris Borchers wrote:
> I guess my other question is are Android and iOS implementing this as 
> a direct authentication method? For example, would I create a Digest 
> auth module and specifically call login without actually requesting a 
> resource first? I don't particularly see how this would work but 
> thought I would ask.
>
That is how it works at the moment.  IN the case of basic on Android it 
just caches the credentials.  I havn't worked out how digest will do it 
yet, but I am imagining it will reference a "login" url to get the 
necessary headers from the 401.
> On May 22, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com 
> <mailto:kris at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>  1. Create Basic or Digest authenticator
>>      1. Must include a callback to be fired when a request to auth is
>>         received from server
>>  2. Create pipe which uses this authenticator
>>  3. Attempt read, save or remove on this pipe
>>  4. Endpoint returns 401 with header indicating type of auth required
>>      1. Need to research that this won't trigger the browser's native
>>         Basic/Digest auth handling
>>  5. 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
>>  6. Use "login" method to construct appropriate response to server's 401
>>      1. This is the fun part :-P
>>  7. Server responds to auth attempt
>>      1. Success - continue to process original read, write or remove
>>      2. Error - trigger a user supplied auth failure callback
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On May 22, 2013, at 8:44 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com 
>> <mailto: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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