[Python-Dev] Python wiki (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon Sep 27 05:45:26 CEST 2010

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:56:20 -0400, Scott Dial <scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote:

On 9/26/2010 3:12 AM, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > Preventing the browser from prompting the user on the chance they > might want to enter an OpenID is not possible, and stopping to use > basic authentication is not feasible.

In theory, you could catch usernames that started with "http://", but I

No, Martin really meant "not possible": once basic auth is started, the browser prompts for username and password and you are in basic-auth land thereafter; the web server has no way to tell the browser to stop using basic auth.

imagine that only "ultra geeks" know their URIs (I have no idea what the URI for a Google account is). But, I don't see this as being worthwhile

Well, my OpenId is 'david.bitdance.com', so even if you could get around the basic auth problem, looking for "http://" wouldn't work.

-- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com

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