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httr: a friendly http package for R
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Be less obtuse about oob auth #617

Closed jennybc closed 1 year ago

jennybc commented 5 years ago

I think httr or httr2 could try a bit harder to figure out if oob auth is necessary. Dumping some notes I initially made in https://github.com/r-lib/gargle/issues/102, but ultimately decided that httr[2]was a better place to implement this.

We could make the default logic for oob auth a bit more humane.

For example, we could determine that we are on RStudio Server and use oob auth, w/o having to receive explicit instructions via the option or arg.

How to tell?

rstudioapi::versionInfo()$mode
[1] "server"

Also, since I'm here, let me record other ways I know of learning more about context: The env var R_CONFIG_ACTIVE is "shiny" on shinyapps.io and "rstudio_cloud" on RStudio Cloud.

When you're in RStudio, you can call RStudio.Version(). But that's a function attached by RStudio itself and would presumably require weird gymnastics in a CRAN package.

RStudio v1.3 will set RSTUDIO_PROGRAM_MODE.

RSTUDIO_HTTP_REFERER is set in RStudio Server but not in Desktop.

hadley commented 1 year ago

I think this logic is now in httr2 😄