Add external authorization via http request

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Add external authorization via http request #830

Open pingiun opened 3 years ago

pingiun commented 3 years ago

This is similar to Envoys external authorization, and can be used for example in combination with Ory Oathkeeper.

wfaler commented 2 years ago

👍 for this PR!

Maybe a future refinement would be to use service-discovery to discover the endpoint by service name? But I'd take this as is now to get the ball rolling, have the same use-case in mind.