openzim / openedx

Open edX (to zim) scraper
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Add support for OpenEDX instances with external identity provider / SSO #172

Open benoit74 opened 1 year ago

benoit74 commented 1 year ago

As encountered in https://github.com/openzim/openedx/issues/170, OpenEDX instances might be configured with an external identity provider (e.g. for Single Sign On) instance of the internal user store, and the scraper does not support this, failing to connect to the OpenEDX instance and hence stopping processing.

While it seems complex (infeasible ?) to support all kind of external identity providers, we have to consider :