MFA flow, Duo, and querying enrollment status
Jim Fox
fox at washington.edu
Wed Jan 16 16:48:43 EST 2019
>> My guess is that the duo public api is about the same amount of reliable as the
>> one the iframe uses. If one's gonna fail probably the other will.
>
> It's more to do with hanging requests in the IdP. The frame isn't the IdP calling them, it's the browser. Different failure mode. Like I said, I'm highly paranoid.
>
Not to overly beat some dead horse, but we see it as a matter of how to
present the situation to the user. A parameter on the Http constructor
sets the request timeout (We use 10 sec). Failure lets us inform our user
in some kinder way than just having the iframe hang.
Jim
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