Re: Porting the features of nevow.guard to twisted.web.guard

[email protected]
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.twisted.web
Message-ID <20120103142420.2755.618016497.divmod.xquotient.18@localhost6.localdomain6>
On 27 May 2011, 06:47 pm, [email protected] wrote:
>Hi gang,
>
>Per a short chat with exarkun (thanks exarkun), I'm posting this to the
>list for discussion.
>
>A project upon which I am working requires a twisted.web service that
>allows a user to delegate authentication/authorization to a third 
>party,
>e.g., Facebook, Twitter, et cetera.  In so doing, I've found myself
>missing nevow.guard, since web.guard currently only has out-of-the-box
>support for HTTP Auth.  I'd like to see web.guard expand to cover more
>kinds of auth, such as form-based auth or the OAuth-based solutions 
>coming
>from so many social graph sites.
>
>With this in mind, I asked exarkun about this, and he mentioned that 
>the
>only thing he does not consider to be garbage in nevow.guard is the
>feature-set, and that I should port the features to web, discarding the
>baggage.
>
>I'd like to solicit the list for some guidance as to what those 
>features
>are, or should be, and hopefully end up with a ticket describing the
>features to be implemented, which I will then attempt to implement and
>contribute to twisted.web.

Hiya Daniel,

This didn't generate as much discussion as I hoped. :)  However, I think 
you went ahead and started a project - txsomethingsomething?  How is 
that working out?

Jean-Paul
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.