[keycloak-dev] Shortening URLs

[Stan Silvert]

On 1/23/2015 8:06 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stan Silvert" <ssilvert at redhat.com>
>> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:01:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Shortening URLs
>>
>> I like the idea of an option to bind the auth server to the root
>> context.   I think that would be especially good for the appliance dist.
>>
>> But I'm not sure about the rest.  What is the problem we are solving?
> Shorter and easier to remember URLs ;)
>
> At least one the account will be something that users access directly.
Which one is the URL that they will need to remember?  Maybe we could 
make an alias.
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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