Only generate the auth URL and start the login flow on click

src/domain/login/LoginViewModel.js

@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ export class LoginViewModel extends ViewModel {
         this._startOIDCLoginViewModel = this.track(
             new StartOIDCLoginViewModel(this.childOptions({loginOptions: this._loginOptions}))
         );
-        await this._startOIDCLoginViewModel.start();
         this.emitChange("startOIDCLoginViewModel");
+        this._startOIDCLoginViewModel.discover();
     }
 
     _showError(message) {
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ export class LoginViewModel extends ViewModel {
         this._isBusy = status;
         this._passwordLoginViewModel?.setBusy(status);
         this._startSSOLoginViewModel?.setBusy(status);
+        this.startOIDCLoginViewModel?.setBusy(status);
         this.emitChange("isBusy");
     }
 
@@ -246,7 +247,7 @@ export class LoginViewModel extends ViewModel {
         if (this._loginOptions) {
             if (this._loginOptions.sso) { this._showSSOLogin(); }
             if (this._loginOptions.password) { this._showPasswordLogin(); }
-            if (this._loginOptions.oidc) { await this._showOIDCLogin(); }
+            if (this._loginOptions.oidc) { this._showOIDCLogin(); }
             if (!this._loginOptions.sso && !this._loginOptions.password && !this._loginOptions.oidc) {
                 this._showError("This homeserver supports neither SSO nor password based login flows");
             } 

src/domain/login/StartOIDCLoginViewModel.js

@@ -21,35 +21,39 @@ export class StartOIDCLoginViewModel extends ViewModel {
     constructor(options) {
         super(options);
         this._isBusy = true;
-        this._authorizationEndpoint = null;
+        this._issuer = options.loginOptions.oidc.issuer;
+        this._homeserver = options.loginOptions.homeserver;
         this._api = new OidcApi({
             clientId: "hydrogen-web",
-            issuer: options.loginOptions.oidc.issuer,
+            issuer: this._issuer,
             request: this.platform.request,
             encoding: this.platform.encoding,
         });
-        this._homeserver = options.loginOptions.homeserver;
     }
 
     get isBusy() { return this._isBusy; }
-    get authorizationEndpoint() { return this._authorizationEndpoint; }
 
-    async start() {
+    setBusy(status) {
+        this._isBusy = status;
+        this.emitChange("isBusy");
+    }
+
+    async discover() {
+        // Ask for the metadata once so it gets discovered and cached
+        await this._api.metadata()
+    }
+
+    async startOIDCLogin() {
         const p = this._api.generateParams("openid");
         await Promise.all([
             this.platform.settingsStorage.setInt(`oidc_${p.state}_started_at`, Date.now()),
             this.platform.settingsStorage.setString(`oidc_${p.state}_nonce`, p.nonce),
             this.platform.settingsStorage.setString(`oidc_${p.state}_code_verifier`, p.codeVerifier),
             this.platform.settingsStorage.setString(`oidc_${p.state}_homeserver`, this._homeserver),
-            this.platform.settingsStorage.setString(`oidc_${p.state}_issuer`, this._api.issuer),
+            this.platform.settingsStorage.setString(`oidc_${p.state}_issuer`, this._issuer),
         ]);
 
-        this._authorizationEndpoint = await this._api.authorizationEndpoint(p);
+        const link = await this._api.authorizationEndpoint(p);
-        this._isBusy = false;
+        this.platform.openUrl(link);
-    }
-
-    setBusy(status) {
-        this._isBusy = status;
-        this.emitChange("isBusy");
     }
 }

src/platform/web/ui/login/LoginView.js

@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ class StartOIDCLoginView extends TemplateView {
         return t.div({ className: "StartOIDCLoginView" },
             t.a({
                 className: "StartOIDCLoginView_button button-action secondary",
-                href: vm => (vm.isBusy ? "#" : vm.authorizationEndpoint),
+                type: "button",
+                onClick: () => vm.startOIDCLogin(),
+                disabled: vm => vm.isBusy
             }, vm.i18n`Log in via OIDC`)
         );
     }