[Feature Request] Edge System browser support for Linux Broker

[maliksahil]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Customers wish to integrate with Linux Broker. A short term win may be to use system browser to offer integration with linux broker.

Describe the solution you'd like
Allow the developer to specify a specific browser (edge) when operating on Linux. The .WithBroker() call could then use edge to integrate with linux broker.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Wrapping OneAuthMSAL would be a great alternative, but is probably higher effort/down the road.

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

• Figure out if we can detect if Edge is installed (see Ray's comments below)
• Figure out if there is way to start Edge on Linux instead of the regular "xdg-open"
• If all of this is possible, start Edge if it is installed and WithBroker is set to true
• If not possible, contact Edge team and ask for guidance

[bgavrilMS]

@rayluo - did you say you were working on this for msal.py? Is there a way to start edge on Linux and to check that Edge exists?

[rayluo]

@rayluo - did you say you were working on this for msal.py?

Regarding launching a standard Edge, that part has already been finished, tested, and shipped in msal python. We are just recently discussing about the end-to-end test since the broker-enabled Edge-dev becomes available.

Is there a way to start edge on Linux and to check that Edge exists?

MSAL Python detects Edge's existence by using its default installation path that we observed: /usr/bin/microsoft-edge. Python language happens to provide a built-in module to launch a specific browser, I believe it is essentially spawning a process to run the browser executable file with a given url.

[neha-bhargava]

@bgavrilMS @maliksahil In case edge is unavailable do we throw an exception or just open the browser using xdg-open?

[bgavrilMS]

Yes, the logic should be:

• if the broker is enabled then try to use Edge, but if not found, use any browser (xdg-open)

[gladjohn]

This has been fixed in MSAL 4.41.0