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searls opened this issue Aug 13, 2017 · 0 comments
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Idea: accept TOTP/2FA/Security Answers via the web #6

searls opened this issue Aug 13, 2017 · 0 comments

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searls commented Aug 13, 2017

What I'd like is to remove "watching the terminal" from the workflow:

  1. fine_ants scrapes and returns a 2FA question to answer
  2. fine_ants_app displays a UI prompting the user for the 2FA answer
  3. fine_ants_app returns the answer to fine_ants, which continues scraping

Challenges to this:

  • Currently, fine_ants uses stdin for this stuff and just blocks until it gets an answer.
  • Multiple web requests can't just block the main thread
  • Capybara/Selenium are really finicky and will lose their connection to a browser at the drop of a hat

Ideas:

Since this is a local/single-tenant app, we can get away with murder and do whatever we want. Like:

  1. Start up a separate long-running process that runs fine_ants and negotiates back and forth using stdout/stdin
  2. Run the fine_ants API in a separate long-lived thread so that we can poke at it over multiple requests
  3. hand-wavey actioncable idea

I think route 2 is actually desirable, because it would allow the app to recover gracefully if the scraper is ever broken in the main thread (which currently requires an app restart).
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