Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Back at base bugs in the software flash the message "Something's out there!"

One of the challenges with adal.js and its architecture is going to be bookmarking URLs. If you open a browser into the application and do not start out at the root URL you're not going to have the token and your application is going to behave in a sickly way, unable to authenticate to get across a guard and trapped at some route meant for blocking the unauthenticated. This means I have to write something that looks for the token and then goes and gets it if it is missing. Unfortunately, the goes-and-gets-it part of that means a rerouting back to the root URL. I don't see (yet) how a bookmark is even possible. I recall the mantra of Tim Ash: "Your baby is ugly."

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