[Twisted-web] Porting the features of nevow.guard to twisted.web.guard

[L. Daniel Burr]

Hi Glyph,

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:40:45 -0600, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:38 AM, L. Daniel Burr wrote:
>

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>> Hi Jean-Paul,
>>
>>
>> There is a project, https://github.com/minskmaz/txWebAuth, to which I
>> contributed a tiny amount of code.  Neither the main author nor myself
>> have done much to progress the work, but there is a rudimentary design  
>> in
>> place at least.  The only major difference between txWebAuth and guard  
>> is
>> some widening of the ICredentialFactory interface, which is necessary to
>> allow for form-based and OAuth flows.
>
> Thanks for the update, Daniel.
>
> If that's really all there is to it, would this widening of  
> ICredentialFactory be appropriate to just include in Twisted?  Would  
> that help OAuth (and its ilk) move forward in the txEcosystem?
>
> -glyph
>

That's the only change to an existing twisted interface.  The rest can be  
done via checkers and appropriate guard-style wrapper resources.  The  
change to ICredentialFactory is so tiny that I don't know if there is any  
meaningful benefit to making that change in twisted proper, but I'm fine  
with whatever works for the interested parties.

Thanks,

L. Daniel Burr