Clarify that it only works with NSS

[Otto-AA]

Looking at auth.py this project relies on a /login/password endpoint and the nssidp.sid cookie. I think both of these are not standardized and only work with NSS (at least nssidp.sid suggests it is NSS specific).

It would make sense to clarify this in the README so users don't get wrong expectations (as in #30).

[hrchu]

LGTM. @peter0083 could you merge this PR if you feel comfortable with it?

[hrchu]

Solid authentication standard is not ready to use in production back to two years ago (see issue #3 ). The basic auth we implemented was the only way to do authentication at that time (except javascript libs).

We actually mentioned the limitation clearly in the document (see the Access private resources in https://github.com/twonote/solid-file-python/blob/master/solid-file-python-getting-start.ipynb)

However, it is nice to see the limitation more clearly from the user's perspective.

[hrchu]

@Otto-AA would you like to contribute to Solid-OIDC support for the Python ecosystem? I believe it can make a huge impact both on Solid and Python communities.

[Otto-AA]

Thanks for the quick responses!

@Otto-AA would you like to contribute to Solid-OIDC support for the Python ecosystem? I believe it can make a huge impact both on Solid and Python communities.

If I have time sure, but I don't know when this will be 🙃

I guess I'm too good at procrastinating other stuff. So here it is: https://pypi.org/project/solid-oidc-client/

It's based on the work by Rai with solid-flask, but extracted as a library and a lot of refactoring. It works with all pods (ESS, NSS, CSS). Feel free to test it and to integrate it with solid-file-python :)

[renyuneyun]

There is also this Python project for Solid OIDC, which seems to be more complete?: https://github.com/trompamusic/solid-oidc-app-permission
Never mind. That project seems to be a server implementation/mockup, not client.

[Otto-AA]

There is also this Python project for Solid OIDC, which seems to be more complete?: https://github.com/trompamusic/solid-oidc-app-permission
Never mind. That project seems to be a server implementation/mockup, not client.

As mentioned in the forum thread, I think it acts as a client for the Solid OIDC protocol, ie it is not an identity provider, but tries to login a user to an existing IDP through Solid-OIDC.

[renyuneyun]

Just for information: I created a PR #38 which integrates solid-oidc-client with this library. It's working, but not entirely complete as of the discussion points.

[peter0083]

Looks good to me. Merging this PR. Thank you for your contribution @renyuneyun !