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752 points dceddia | 3 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.517s | source
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verall ◴[23 Jun 23 14:36 UTC] No.36447353[source]▶
A lot of people are bringing up Wirth's law or other things, but I want to get more specific.

Has anyone else noticed how bad sign-on redirect flows have gotten in the past ~5 years?

It used to be you clicked sign in, and then you were redirected to a login page. Now I typically see my browser go through 4+ redirects, stuck at a white screen for 10-60 seconds.

I'm a systems C++ developer and I know nothing about webdev. Can someone _please_ fill me in on what's going on here and how every single website has this new slowness?

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pdntspa ◴[23 Jun 23 14:43 UTC] No.36447473[source]▶
It's SSO, which communicates via tons and tons of redirects
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1. reaperducer ◴[23 Jun 23 14:54 UTC] No.36447653[source]▶
It's SSO, which communicates via tons and tons of redirects

Not always. AT&T goes through about 25 redirects to sign in. No SSO involved.

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2. pdntspa ◴[23 Jun 23 15:05 UTC] No.36447829[source]▶
Are you sure?
3. nullindividual ◴[23 Jun 23 16:01 UTC] No.36448717[source]▶
It's SSO behind the scenes between services within ATTs environment. It's just not "SSO" to you, the end user.