[keycloak-dev] <kc:bearer-only> and BASIC auth

Eric Wittmann eric.wittmann at redhat.com
Fri Aug 21 13:02:23 EDT 2015


I'm not a fan of basic auth either, but ... give the people what they 
want?

We had to implement a BASIC Authentication Policy in apiman for the same 
reason - lots of people use it and want it still.

On 8/21/2015 11:09 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
> BTW, I despise our Basic Auth option.  One of the points of SAML/OIDC is
> that the application never has access to user credentials.  Using Basic
> Auth violates that principle....But to each his own...
>
> On 8/21/2015 10:03 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-1778
>>
>> committing a fix for this in next hour or so.  Please elaborate on your
>> CORS problem though.
>>
>> On 8/21/2015 9:56 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>> I'm more interested in the CORS problems.  What you want is an easy fix.
>>>
>>> On 8/21/2015 9:47 AM, Eric Wittmann wrote:
>>>> Can we get an option that disables the login redirect but still allows
>>>> BASIC auth to work?
>>>>
>>>> -Eric
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