From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: JSON Web Tokens Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 21:51:22 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: MajGvm9MbNtGBKE7r8NgYA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48399 Date: 2017-10-08T21:51:22+02:00 List-Id: On 2017-10-08 20:12, joakimds@kth.se wrote: > I was surfing the net and found something called JSON Web Tokens. It > seems there is support for it in many programming languages but not Ada. It is a web-programming issue. Why there should be Ada support? > Does anybody know of any Ada support? Specifically for the Simple Components' HTTP server, there was no request to implement any of various authorization schemes, e.g. for Gnoga. It would be quite simple to implement JWT if anybody actually needed it... P.S. I think that in some cases Gnoga just keeps the session alive, so that no authorization token is ever needed. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de