NameID Login Add-On Change

[domob]

I hope this is not off-topic here, but since NameID is also part of the "official" Github project, I think it is not.

Yesterday, I've updated the NameID browser add-on as well as the web page to use a more flexible way to "communicate" between page and add-on. The page can now request message signing services from the add-on via a JavaScript library, and can otherwise be freely structured. (Previously, the add-on expected the login form to have a very specific structure.) If you use the add-on, you need to update (but you will see this on the site, too).

I believe that this makes everything much cleaner, and it also allows for more things (for instance, sending NameID authentication via AJAX). I think I should really try to write some plug-ins for common web applications to integrate NameID. I can try to start with phpBB, so that the forum can natively support NameID.

[biolizard89]

I hope this is not off-topic here, but since NameID is also part of the "official" Github project, I think it is not.

Yesterday, I've updated the NameID browser add-on as well as the web page to use a more flexible way to "communicate" between page and add-on. The page can now request message signing services from the add-on via a JavaScript library, and can otherwise be freely structured. (Previously, the add-on expected the login form to have a very specific structure.) If you use the add-on, you need to update (but you will see this on the site, too).

I believe that this makes everything much cleaner, and it also allows for more things (for instance, sending NameID authentication via AJAX). I think I should really try to write some plug-ins for common web applications to integrate NameID. I can try to start with phpBB, so that the forum can natively support NameID.

Certainly not off-topic.

Nice, that's good news. I'd definitely like to see some NameID plugins for web apps. phpBB, Drupal, and WordPress come to mind as useful cases.