Jbrowse work with Azure RBAC Blob Storage

[epi-interactive]

Hi,

This seems to be more of a question than an issue. It has been verified that JBrowse works correctly with a public Azure Blob Storage SAS link containing a token.

However, our security team is concerned about the use of a publicly accessible SAS link.

I am looking into whether Azure Blob Storage can be secured using RBAC. The main question is: Can JBrowse function with blob storage secured by Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)? Additionally, is it possible for JBrowse to automatically launch a browser to proceed authentication when accessing a link secured with RBAC?

Thanks,
Liang

[cmdcolin]

JBrowse generally likes plain-old-http links to resources

JBrowse 2 created the concept of "internet accounts" which can pop up in-app login boxes for authenticated resources. Note that JBrowse 1 does not.

We have created examples of doing this in JBrowse 2 for HTTP Basic auth, google drive auth, and dropbox files

You can either build this login workflow in-app, or you can embed JBrowse on a webpage, and let the surrounding webpage handle this. With the in-app approach, you would probably make a jbrowse 2 plugin that adds a new internetAccount plugin type. With the embedding, you can just do whatever logic in the webpage, and then pass JBrowse a resulting URL