Building an OAuth2-secured MCP mail server against a real Dovecot/Postfix mailbox surfaced four separate Keycloak client registrations, a Default-vs-Optional scope trap, and a genuinely counter-intuitive Audience-mapper gotcha behind a mysterious active: false.
Category: python
In the last months MCP (Model Context Protocol) became one of the hot topics in the field of AI. While it is promoted for connecting tools/agents to LLM workflows there’s very little information about how things work on a technical basis. On most places So here’s my quest to answer those questions by writing a […]
As mentioned earlier I was going to replace thiss-mdq with pyFF for my SAML federation metadata query service. Comparison thiss-mdq / pyFF On its project site thiss-mdq describes itself as The thiss-mdq is a minimal implementation of MDQ that only supports JSON data. while pyFF considers itself “a SAML metadata aggregator written in python”. Both […]
Recently I got access to an Openstack system and did my first steps on it. Maybe some of the things I learned so far are of interest to others. Using cloudinit for customization Cloud providers offer the possibility to alter the configuration of their VM images in a standardized way: cloudinit. This uses a simple […]