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FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is the proposed FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol. OpenWebAuth is the “single sign-on” mechanism used by Hubzilla, (streams) and other related projects. It allows a browser-based user to log in to services across the Fediverse using a single identity. Once logged in, they can be recognised by other OpenWebAuth-compatible services, ...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OpenWebAuth has been in use on the fediverse since before WebFinger became so widely used.

Like I said in a previous comment, this FEP was written by reverse engineering the existing implementation. It's still a proposal so it still has to go through a discussion period where issues like this can be worked out and it can be updated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh I see. Thanks!