I created an jwt token based application with React and Symfony. Client & Server are completely separated. Symfony - API Server. React - Client.
Now i want to use websockets so i installed goswebsocketbundle. Everything works fine but unsecure. I don't know how to send token in socket/connect function or subscribe to access topic. Is passing parameters allowed in WAMP?
Help me please.
You need to send the token in request header and receive it from response body.
For dummy request tests you can use postman.
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I have two components:
mydomain runs a nextjs along with next-auth.js
api.mydomain runs a back-end API that mydomain's client points to make some request
Mydomain is authenticated via the Next.js's Github provider, and as long as I get next-auth.js creates a JWT session which is sent to the client as a form of a cookie (correct me if I'm wrong). Then, if you need some info about your authentication, you can use the hook useSession on front side in order to access your JWT session.
My frontend is not using the api nextjs' functionality though: it communicates with an API through axios HTTP calls, which is deployed separately. What I would like to do is passing the Nextjs' JWT to my backend in order to verify authentication and authorization, but I'm not sure if it's possible, safe and recommended.
So: how could I accomplish that? The only alternative I see is generating a separated JWT token within the JWT callback, pass back to the front and use it for my calls, but I see it like a redundant thing actually, like embedding a JWT within a JWT.
Here is what I'd like to do in summary:
We are trying to get the ngnix + work as an API gateway with JWT token authorization.
https://auth0.com/blog/use-nginx-plus-and-auth0-to-authenticate-api-clients/
We are following the below document , but one question is not clear , how the front end will get the JWT token , that need to be passes as -H in every request ?
Logically, the ngnix should expose one api to generate tokens. How this can be achieved.
Nginx can only validate, not generate JWT. You need to generate the JWT inside your application using the same secret key. See the Nginx blog for an example (Section "Issuing a JWT to API Clients"). In their example, they issue a JWT using shell commands but of course you can also do this with a JWT library of your choice inside your application.
I have an own OAuth2 provider where you can ask for a token and validate it. I want to protect my REST API (resource server) with OAuth2, so, in every single request, the access token must be validated, against OAuth2 server.
I have been doing this validation in the REST API code itself, by intercepting every request and doing another request to OAuth2 server.
I wonder if there is any way to do it in the Nginx server instead of in the REST API. This way, it would be easier to setup in another REST API, instead of copy/paste the code (or share a library).
Maybe, should I create my own nginx module? Or running an script in every request? If so, how can I do it?
Any advice will be appreciated.
Yes, you can use the auth-request module in nginx.
I have an admin-console for an existing service that I want to provide access to by adding login, using our company's OAuth 2.0 service. I want to use Apigee here, so that the web-app with the admin-console does not have to implement the login-logic.
My idea was to use AuthorizationCode flow and let Apigee manage the tokens and I looked into https://github.com/apigee/api-platform-samples/tree/master/sample-proxies/oauth-login-app, but I really can't see how our existing OAuth service fits in.
Is there a sample like that? Perhaps using Google's or Facebook's OAuth service to authenticate the user?
First, Apigee needs to be a proxy into the admin-console. This means that all traffic to the admin-console has to go through Apigee. Otherwise, you won't be able to enforce authentication.
Second, there are a couple different options for integrating with the external oauth 2.0 service. Apigee has the ability to store an external access token and use it as its own, or Apigee can generate a token and store the external access token as a custom attribute.
High level thoughts on how the Apigee proxy could look like:
ProxyEndpoint - endpoint exposed to clients connecting to admin console
TargetEndpoint (not shown in that oauth login-app example) - endpoint for the actual admin console
The flows that execute in the Apigee proxy before sending the request to admin-console will need to implement logic that checks an authentication token. If it's valid, let the request pass onto the TargetEndpoint (admin-console). If the request isn't valid, step through logic that goes calls the external oauth 2.0 server's auth code flow. This will require the following:
Apigee needs to be registered with external oauth 2.0 server.
Logic needs to be built in this proxy to support the redirection based flow of authorization code grant_type (obtaining auth code, receiving the auth code, obtaining token --> all while being redirection based and transparent to user).
In addition to #2, Apigee will need to store the external token as custom attribute and expose the apigee token, or store the external token for verification purposes later on. http://apigee.com/docs/api-services/content/authorize-requests-using-oauth-20 (see Delegating token management). After the token is stored, you'd need to respond with another 302 redirect to the initial uri + token so the request can pass through to admin-console as an authenticated request.
#2 isn't exactly straight-forward and there won't be an example proxy that shows this implementation. If the oauth 2.0 service supported a password grant, it may simplify the implementation, but allows the credentials to pass through apigee and not directly with the authorization server.
I'm tasked with creating a service-oriented ecosystem for a client. The whole thing is going to be REST based and built in ASP.NET, but my question is technology-agnostic. We want to have a centralized authentication service that issues JWT tokens and claims that are trusted by the other services in the environment.
My issue is this - what's the first thing that a web client (browser) requests? All of the diagrams I've seen (I'll try to add a couple of example links) make it seems as if the client needs to be self-aware and realize that they're going to need a token before they make the first request to the functional REST service, which seems, well, janky to me.
The way I want it to work is that they just attempt to access the secured resource, but there's no auth token with the request my REST service challenge them for user/password, but then delegate the authentication to my auth service. So:
Browser requests restricted resource on REST service
REST service returns 401
Browser gathers credentials, sends to same web service
REST service connects to the authentication service, passing along the Auth header from the client's request
Auth service creates the JWT token and returns it to the REST service
REST service validates the JWT and replaces the Auth header with the JWT token
JWT token is persisted for subsequent requests, up to expy setting
...am I completely off about this? Does the web client need to know that there's a separate auth service involved and make one request there to get their JWT, and then a second request for the REST resource passing the JWT? That seems clunky to me, I hope that's not the idea.
Also, another n00b question - is the JWT token automagically kept by the web clients and re-sent with every request so I don't have to go through the auth service step each time? Is that what the expiration setting is for?
TIA.
See figure 1 here for an example of what I mean: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh446531.aspx
Starting with your last question will make the rest of the answers clearer:
"...is the JWT token automagically kept by the web clients and re-sent with every request.." - The idea is to issue JWT once, send it to the client so client can save it and send it on each subsequent request. This way your front-end app will send username and password just once and then use JWT for authentication. You will have to store the JWT using browser storage (local or session) or cookies (common fallback for older browsers).
"...Does the web client need to know that there's a separate auth service involved..." - You will need to send the username and password to a service in order to have the JWT issued. You could implement it with just one request, but you need to send credentials to the service (provided by the user), receive JWT as part of response and store it (as above). It might be easier to do it on a separate request, depending on requirements and implementation.