Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

> On 21 Nov 2024, at 19:51, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 3:05 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> Personally, I'm not even a fan of the -Dssl/--with-ssl system.  I'm more
>> attached to --with-openssl.

In hindsight, --with-ssl was prematurely pulled out from the various TLS
backend patchsets that were proposed a while back.  I wonder if we should
reword "Obsolete equivalent of --with-ssl=openssl" in the docs with plain
"Equivalent of ..". (which is really for another thread.)

>>  But if you want to stick with that, a more
>> suitable naming would be something like, say, --with-httplib=curl, which
>> means, use curl for all your http needs.  Because if we later add other
>> functionality that can use some http, I don't think we want to enable or
>> disable them all individually, or even mix different http libraries for
>> different features.  In practice, curl is a widely available and
>> respected library, so I'd expect packagers to be just turn it all on
>> without much further consideration.
>
> Okay, I can see that. I'll work on replacing --with-builtin-oauth. Any
> votes from the gallery on --with-httplib vs. --with-libcurl?

I think I would vote for --with-libcurl.

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Daniel Gustafsson