accessing authentication context from Python?

[JI Ioannidis]

Consider a simple RPC setup protected with http/2, such as https://github.com/jayeye/grpc/tree/ji/secure-hello/examples/python/helloworld

The server will know that the client was properly authenticated, but if it wants to know which of its zillion clients it was, how does it access the contents of the cert that was used by the client? I would have assumed context.auth_context() would be the answer, but there is no such method for context.

Thanks

/ji

[Varun Talwar]

+Nathaniel

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[Nathaniel Manista]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:59 AM, JI Ioannidis <jay...@gmail.com> wrote:

Consider a simple RPC setup protected with http/2, such as https://github.com/jayeye/grpc/tree/ji/secure-hello/examples/python/helloworld

The server will know that the client was properly authenticated, but if it wants to know which of its zillion clients it was, how does it access the contents of the cert that was used by the client? I would have assumed context.auth_context() would be the answer, but there is no such method for context.

I don't believe that this is possible today. I've opened issue 7710 to see about adding it in the future.

-Nathaniel