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An Extension API to initiate an OAuth2 authentication process using a "popup" browser window instead of opening a new tab for the same
See original GitHub issueI am creating a Vs Code web extension with OAuth2 based authentication (similar to Github Authentication in VS Code).
I’m using vscode.env.openExternal to initiate the login process, which opens a new tab. Is there another option to open the same process in a popup window using VS Code’s Extension API? Github Authentication uses a popup window for the same. I wasn’t able to find the particular VS Code’s Extension API.
Requests
- Provide an Extension API for opening OAuth2 links in a popup window instead of opening a new tab, so the user doesn’t have to leave the vscode.dev’s browser tab while trying to authenticate. The whole authentication, redirection, and URL capture by vscode’s URI handler should happen without switching to another tab.
What seems to be the issue?
- I’m using
vscode.env.openExternalto initiate the login process, which opens a new tab. This forces the user to leave the current vscode.dev’s context and hence ruining the user experience. On the other hand, the Popup window for OAuth2 is a very popular pattern for authentication, which most of the users are already familiar with, so that pattern would make things easier for the users.
Version: 1.63.2 Commit: 899d46d82c4c95423fb7e10e68eba52050e30ba3 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.99 Safari/537.36 Embedder: vscode.dev
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- Created 2 years ago
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- Comments:18 (8 by maintainers)
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@jrieken I would love this. Currently this works on vscode.dev because we specify a few specific Uris in the embedder that should open in a pop up but it would be nice to have a general solution for this that works for Desktop as well.
@joaomoreno that pop up that we have only shows for “trusted” sites. I’m wondering if there’s a way to have the pop up but make it still “not trusted” just as tabs that are opened in new tabs are opened today?
One problem I foresee is that the site needs to be “trusted” for us to auto-close the pop up so the best we could do here is that the popup stays around and you have to close it manually.