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[François Marier <francois@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A message to the admin would be a good idea especially if there was no
firewall when the plugin was enabled and one got added later.

Note that my suggestion was about preventing admins from enabling a
plugin that won't work (which I think has value from a usability
standpoint), not disabling a previously enabled plugin.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1015912

Title:
  BrowserID plugin should check for firewall issues before getting
  enabled

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  If your server is set to prevent outgoing HTTPS connections, the
  BrowserID plugin will fail to verify any assertion with this error
  message:

    Mahara did not receive valid JSON output from the BrowserID
  verifier.

  Ideally, the auth plugin should curl https://browserid.org/verify and
  see if it can reach it succesfully before letting admins enable it for
  a site.

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