Timeline for Wording a question about protocols for converting authentication without it being " product, service, or learning material recommendations"
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| May 3, 2022 at 12:29 | comment | added | Ramhound | @AaarghZombies - Asking for a wrapper would involve someone submitting their recommendation on which wrapper to use (if one even exists). | |
| May 1, 2022 at 19:02 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | superuser.com/help/on-topic | |
| May 1, 2022 at 18:46 | comment | added | user1450676 | What would be an on-topic question? | |
| May 1, 2022 at 18:45 | comment | added | user1450676 | Why is asking about a wrapper off topic? Surely it's pretty basic computer science question? | |
| May 1, 2022 at 18:43 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | @AaarghZombies So you either find such a wrapper yourself (asking for one is off topic) or write one yourself. Regardless of whether your proposed solution is a translator or a wrapper asking for it is off-topic. I'm done with trying to explain that to you. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 18:28 | comment | added | user1450676 | @Mokubai, You haven't understood the question. There's nothing magic about it. You take the non-compliant protocol and you encapsulate it in the compliant one. It's done all the time. Most modern servers architectures do this by default. For example, it's how you can send a photograph over Bluetooth. You wrap the packet containing the image inside of a bluetooth packet which carries things such as transmission and security protocols. Anything sent via P2P is transmitted in a similar way. The P2P protocol handled things such as addressing, routing and encryption. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 12:41 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @AaarghZombies It's nothing to do with "how I would solve it" but is a basic understanding of what you are asking for. You have a device that knows one protocol and you expect it to magically talk another. How do you expect that to happen? Just bandying the word "protocol" as something you want is meaningless. A protocol is a language used by devices, not some magic that glues things together. Devices understand protocols and use them to talk to each other and just like humans a translator is needed when a person tries to talk to someone who speaks a different language. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 12:21 | comment | added | user1450676 | @DavidPostil You do need a social media account if that's how the server authenticates your identity. It's a security requirement for accessing the server. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 12:18 | comment | added | user1450676 | I think that it's unfair for you to close my question based on the way that you'd solve the problem, not based on the question that I'm asking. I'm asking about a protocol, not a third party service. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 11:27 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | It's not even a problem of protocols. What is being asked is to find a service on the Internet that can take in the SMTP protocol and somehow connect to a server that uses the OAuth protocol for authentication. Just because the word "protocol" is being abused (wilfully or not) doesn't change what is being asked for. Asking us to recommend software, regardless of whether it is running "in the cloud" or on your local computer, is off topic here. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 10:43 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | Sigh. SMTP is a protocol. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - Wikipedia. You don't need a social media account to send email. You need an email client. I can send email but I'm not running a server. You can run your own email server if you want. Asking what server to use or install is off-topic. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 10:23 | comment | added | user1450676 | Based on your answer here, you've clearly not understood the nature of my problem or the nature of the answer that I require. You're comments about ISP, and saying that I don't need a social media account to send email speak to this. I likely need a protocol or an API, which would normally be part of a server based OS.. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 10:20 | comment | added | user1450676 | That's basically no help at all. What question do I need to ask to get the answer that I need? | |
| May 1, 2022 at 10:09 | history | answered | DavidPostillMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |