Unanswered Questions
295 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Facebook authentication with an Authoritative Server for a Flash Game
I'm working on a multiplatform game in Flash. This game utilizes Photon Server for authoritative physics and user statistics tracking. I'm looking to leverage Facebook authentication as an alternative ...
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Is it possible to use a reverse proxy authentication in a native mobile app
We have a few backend services that our frontend SPAs fetch data from. Right now, the SPAs use JS libraries to authenticate with the Auth server (Azure AD) which returns a JWT which is validated by my ...
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How to authenticate third-party callbacks that don't support authentication
I'm working on a project that integrates with a third-party service via API, and the third-party uses callbacks to update us on the status of the operations being performed. These callbacks can be hit ...
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Data processing pipeline design for processing data
I have a use case for which I need to build a data processing pipeline
Customer contact leads data coming from different data sources like csv, data base, api has to be first mapped to a universal ...
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Python and C++ repository structure
I'm refactoring the directory structure of a large Python repo that has a few dozen C and C++ files littered throughout. Is there a suggested architecture for a Python package that contains C/C++ code ...
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Component needs to invoke class methods and instance methods (via ORM), how to structure
An interesting design choice/discussion has cropped up in code review, and I would like to understand more about proposed solutions. The original review includes re-factoring of a messy piece of code ...
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Calculating the multiplicative inverse of a number in a Galois field
I was told to come here from Stack Overflow because I was "looking for an algorithm". I'm trying to implement it in Python, but there is nowhere on the net that gives a straightforward way for ...
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Client Browser, Node Server, Web API auth structure
I have a web API that accepts Authorization headers to allow access. It responds with the requested data in addition to setting a session cookie. Subsequent requests can be made with no auth headers ...
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Architecting an account system for oauth that bridges a new and legacy system
So this question is specific to implementing auth in our system but I'm looking for high-level (just the architecture) solution or advice on which direction to head towards.
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Our ...
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Global Accounts in Multi-Tenant Authorization System
Our system is fundamentally a multi-tenant setup, where each client maintains a separate database with its own data and users. The authentication system on login issues an authentication token which ...
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How to Use Python as a "Macro" runner for a C# Application
I am working on an application that the user may wish to automate some features of (but we don't know what at the moment) I would like to provide them some kind of scripting interface so they can play ...
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Structuring a multi-language project?
I'm working on a project which involves writing code for multiple devices, each in its own language (in particular, Arduino and Python). I want to contain the entire project in a single directory, but ...
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Oauth 2 store access token vs verifying on each call
Let's say my Server is both Authorization Server and Resource server
My Client (for example mobile app) can authenticate in 2 matters:
via Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant
via Authorization ...
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Adding new service to authenticated website
So I've created an API that I want to leverage to add some functionality to an existing web app. My current website authenticates users using SAML. What I'm looking to do is instead of moving the code ...
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Where to store formulas and formula "constants"?
I want to implement a database driven payroll system using CSharp. I already did it once, but the implementation sucks so I want to do it again and do it right.
My first thought is to create a static ...
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