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improve config docs for OIDCPreservePost; see #1320; thanks @primo44
Signed-off-by: Hans Zandbelt <[email protected]>
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auth_openidc.conf

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# Indicates whether POST data will be preserved across authentication requests (and discovery in case of multiple OPs).
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# This is designed to prevent data loss when a session timeout occurs in a (long) user filled HTML form.
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# It cannot handle arbitrary payloads for security (DOS) reasons, merely form-encoded user data.
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# Preservation is done via HTML 5 session storage: note that this can lead to private data exposure on shared terminals.
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# The default is "Off" (for security reasons). Can be configured on a per Directory/Location basis.
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# It cannot handle arbitrary payloads for security (DOS) reasons, merely form-encoded user data where the Content-Type
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# header value is application/x-www-form-urlencoded. See also:
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# https://github.com/OpenIDC/mod_auth_openidc/wiki/Known-Limitations#post-data-preservation-1
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# Preservation is done via HTML 5 session storage in the browser: note that this can lead to private data exposure on shared terminals.
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# The default is "Off" (for security reasons). It can be configured on a per Directory/Location basis.
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#OIDCPreservePost [On|Off]
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# POST preserve and restore templates to be used with OIDCPreservePost

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