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FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
submitted 9 months ago by 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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This is the proposed FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol. OpenWebAuth is the “single sign-on” mechanism used by Hubzilla, (streams) and other related projects. It allows a browser-based user to log in to services across the Fediverse using a single identity. Once logged in, they can be recognised by other OpenWebAuth-compatible services, ...

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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This looks really odd in relation to other fediverse software; Why /magic and required to be on the root of the domain? Why hard-require routing the domain part of the user ID when .well-known/webfinger exists? Why is there a X-Open-Web-Auth header which the spec only describes as "its purpose is unclear from the code"?
So many questions.

I definitely like the idea of distributed sign-in, Solid did a decent work of that many years ago after all. This particular proposal just looks rather odd.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

The author wrote this FEP by reverse engineering the Hubzilla implementation. The point of proposing it is to find and answer questions like these.

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