Successful authentication for desktop app redirects in browser do not work
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- github
- Domain
- authentication, desktop
Research direction
Reproduce the flow with GitHub Desktop on elementary OS 7.x, starting from the x-github-desktop-dev-auth://oauth redirect issued after browser authentication. Trace how the browser handles this external redirect and verify that it reaches the installed desktop app and completes authentication.
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Description
What Happened?
After successfully authenticating in Web, Web cannot redirect user successfully so authentication for desktop app is never completed.
So far behaviour exists in GitHub Desktop App and Todoist - all installed via AppCenter
Steps to Reproduce
- Install GitHub Desktop App
- Launch GitHub and follow login instructions to authenticate
- On successful authentication, redirect is issued (x-github-desktop-dev-auth://oauth...)
- Browser is unable to handle redirect, desktop app is never authenticated
Expected Behavior
Browser should redirect correctly and allow apps to become authenticated
OS Version
7.x (Early Access)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
No response
Hardware Info
No response
- Dominant language
- Meson
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- 8
- Forks
- 4
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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