Document workaround to run a text-mode browser in a subprocess #96
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I figured this out to support an OAuth flow within a Dockerized environment, but it might also be helpful for other authentication backends.
According to the webbrowser module documentation:
When you are running a project in a containerized environment, you probably don't have access to a graphical interface. In that case, webbrowser.open() blocks and waits for the text-mode browser to close. However, the opened browser attempts to load the content provided by httpx-auth's authentication response server. This becomes a deadlock - the browser is loading content from the auth response server, but the auth response server cannot send the content because it is blocking on the webbrowser.
The webbrowser module already has support for opening a text-mode browser in a non-blocking fashion:
This PR simply documents how to correctly trigger the preexisting functionality to open a text-mode browser in a separate process.