Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jacob Champion
Subject Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER
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Msg-id CAOYmi+=gxXx1a7s3805TjGKAugxLOuj6vpQZOjS0=zEcfHUyuQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER  (Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>)
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 3:05 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> Personally, I'm not even a fan of the -Dssl/--with-ssl system.  I'm more
> attached to --with-openssl.  But if you want to stick with that, a more
> suitable naming would be something like, say, --with-httplib=curl, which
> means, use curl for all your http needs.  Because if we later add other
> functionality that can use some http, I don't think we want to enable or
> disable them all individually, or even mix different http libraries for
> different features.  In practice, curl is a widely available and
> respected library, so I'd expect packagers to be just turn it all on
> without much further consideration.

Okay, I can see that. I'll work on replacing --with-builtin-oauth. Any
votes from the gallery on --with-httplib vs. --with-libcurl?

The other suggestions look good and I've added them to my personal
TODO list. Thanks again for all the feedback!

--Jacob



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