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François' Blog
Personal blog · tuxed.net/fkooman/blogprogrammingsystems
François' Blog is a personal blog at tuxed.net about programming and systems. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link François' Blog for posts on WebDAV, remoteStorage and OAuth authorization discovery for self-hosted services. The linked discovery post drew a technical objection in one thread.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /fkooman/blog/as_discovery.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-14
What Hacker News says?
I'm just saying that the mechanism to provide authorization endpoint and token endpoint to the client as proposed in https://www.tuxed.net/fkooman/blog/as_discovery.html is (in general) not sufficient. The client usually needs to provide valid client credentials in order to authenticate. OpenID Connect solves that by extending OAuth2 with a layer to discover additional information about the authentication service (l…
Comment linking /fkooman/blog/as_discovery.html
on “I hope WebDAV dies”Submitted Bye Bye Skype, canceling Skype account as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFull disclosure: I contributed to the remoteStorage specification [0]. Instead of (or in addition to) considering remoteStorage, one could also go back to "normal" WebDAV, if such a thing exists, and completely forget about the CalDAV/CardDAV servers. I'd say WebDAV is more mature, it has litmus[1] for testing implementations. remoteStorage has as far as I know only one production instance running at 5apps [2]. The…
Comment linking /fkooman/blog/as_discovery.html
on “I hope WebDAV dies”