Adopt Pushed Authorization Requests

[aaronpk]

Pushed Authorization Requests is still an early OAuth 2.0 draft, but is a good candidate for IndieAuth as well as it provides better overall security.

Instead of first building a URL with the authorization request and redirecting the user's browser to that URL, the first step is to send a POST with the request details to the authorization endpoint, and then redirecting the user's browser to the authorization endpoint with an opaque string returned from the previous step.

[aaronpk]

Removing this from the GitHub milestone for now while we focus on the current open issues we discussed at the popup.

[aaronpk]

Leaving this issue open for future discussions.

• Marginal benefit right now, unless more gets added to the authorization request (e.g. account numbers, identifying or personal information)
• Premature to adopt any specific OAuth extension draft? ** Wait instead for https://oauth.xyz/?
• If we do find that we may want to add things to thet authorization request that are "sensitive" then it's worth revisiting this

[jamietanna]

I have partially implemented this as part of my new IndieAuth server

(Originally published at: https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2020/12/mlcei/)

[jamietanna]

This is now an official spec, RFC9126

[jalcine]

Planning on adding this to sele.jalcine.dev in its major release. It'll make CLI apps and mobile apps quite easier to craft.

(Originally published at: https://jacky.wtf/2023/11/iQTR)