Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> writes: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 07:16:01AM -0800, Jan Staněk wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > tl;dr: Why is the Fedora ID server using HTTP communication by default? > > Fedora openid is using http because long ago when we started offering > openid users were 'http://username.id.fedoraproject.org' and thus were > tied to this identity. If we changed it, everyone using that openid > would be a new different person to whoever they were authenticating.
That makes sense – thanks for the explanation! > Some things to note: > > * openid is old, most places have dropped it. > ... > > really these days you want to move to OIDC or the like. Probably, but this is not a new app, and given it's projected lifespan, I do not consider it worthwhile to redo the authentication method. Thanks for the insight! -- Jan Staněk Software Engineer, Red Hat jsta...@redhat.com irc: jstanek
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