@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net Was looking at fileBrowser and noticed it has an authentication method they call Proxy Authentication – Can we adopt/borrow this same behaviour for yarnd on Sandstorm? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net That is essentially what Sandstorm already does! We have Sandstorm specific header names, but you can also make the header name you ingest configurable. https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/auth/

The only thing particularly more complicated for Sandstorm is that we don’t control the uniqueness of a user’s preferred handle, so you do need to user the user-id field for authentication, and then ensure the username is unique inside the app.

Sometimes apps shoehorn the user-id field into like their email or password fields, and then use either username or preferred-handle for the display name depending on the type of app.

Thanks!