RE: Passing "origin" with intents

Greg wrote:
> Talking separately to some people interested in using intents as an
> IPC mechanism, having 'origin' on explicit intents (my suggestion 4
> above) would satisfy their needs.

> Would this also satisfy the use case of making Oauth-style authentication?

> If so, perhaps we should limit
> 'origin' to that for the time being -- it's seems fair that an
> explicit intent carry the origin of the requester, since it is
> directed at a specific service anyway.

This seems /less/ problematic. I'd have to work through some cases.

One case is:
Github.example.com with an explicit "pull-request" intent to github.com or something like that.

In the case I know of, github as a software thing is licensed by github.com to example.com, and thus already knows about this instance so this isn't a secret that needs preserving.

I could imagine a company wanting to have a way for their employees to "tweet this" from an internal site "super-marketing.example.com", where it /might/ not want twitter to know that it's in fact being crowd-sourced by super-marketing, however that company could of course use a custom client which ignores this part of the specification. Offhand, breaking this specific example(/requiring a non conformant UA) doesn't bother me. I don't have the time today to figure out whether there are other cases where the origin has a real right-to-privacy if it's using an explicit intent.

So, call this a "tentative-ok-by-me".

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Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:57:03 UTC