Description
This will use a JWT Token authentication to get from one domain, where you are signed in, to another domain where you get signed in automatically. Something like ExternalLoginKey or Tomcat SSO, but not on the same domain.
This will build upon the initial work done at OFBIZ-9833 which has been partially reverted in trunk with r1827439 (see OFBIZ-10304) and r1827441. I explained why and what I did at https://s.apache.org/a5Km
I turned to Ajax for the "Authorization" header sending. I initially thought I'd just pass an "Authorization" header and use it in the externalServerLoginCheck preprocessor, et voilà.
But I stumbled upon something I did not know well : CORS! And in particular the upstream control (Pre-verified requests):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing#Preflight_example
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
https://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
To be able to pass an "Authorization" header, the server must respond positively in the Preflight HTTP response (OPTIONS). To do this, either you use a Tomcat filter (or your own filter, there are examples on the Net) or use HTTPD (or Nginx) configuration on the target server.
I tried Tomcat first, without success. With HTTPD it's easier just 3 lines. For my tests, future tests by OFBiz users and as an example, I asked infra to put them in our HTTPD trunk demo config:
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://localhost:8443"
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Authorization"
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true"
No code change (either in all web.xml files for Tomcat or Java for own filter), and more safety. It does not give more right to outsiders than what we give with the admin credential.
In Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin you can put more domains. I just used https://localhost:8443 for the tests.
It works in Chrome, Firefox and Opera and partially in IE11 (not tested in Edge). I did not test Safari, but I guess like other modern browsers it should work.
For those (very few I guess) interested by IE11 (for Edge test yourself and report please), here is the solution
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12643960/internet-explorer-10-is-ignoring-xmlhttprequest-xhr-withcredentials-true
https://web.archive.org/web/20130308142134/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537343%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ieinternals/2013/09/17/a-quick-look-at-p3p/
TODO (maybe) in the future, use the new Fetch API (not available yet): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
Here is a complement about the way it's architectured:
- A change to cookies was introduced with
OFBIZ-4959. Actually it was not really a bug rather a clean-up. The autoLogin cookies were only used by the ecommerce component and maybe webpos. But all applications were creating such cookies with a one year duration. They were useless until I needed them for the feature of this Jira issue. But even if they were safe (httponly) then I needed them to be clean, not a one year duration (to be as safe as possible, temporary cookies are better). So after doing it crudely, inspired by Taher's suggestion I introduced the keep-autologin-cookie <webapp> attribute in ofbiz-component.xml. It's used to remove not kept cookies when login in or out. So those cookies are only kept during a session. Also a cookie is created when an user jumps from one application to another on the source domain. These cookies are used when navigating from a domain to another to guarantee the safety of the user who jumps from the source domain to the target domain. Note that protected cookies (httponly) are one of the safer ways to store information, js script can't use them].
Note: finally I add to use a more secure way and introduced webappName.securedLoginId cookies to replace autoLogin cookies. They work they same way but prevent a possible vulnerability. This is explained at the bottom of this Jira. - To jump from a domain to another I use Ajax to send a JWT token in a HTTP header (as recommended by CORS standard). The JWT token contains only the userLoginId information.
- For authentication, I use the checkExternalServerLogin pre-processor in the same vein than checkExternalLoginKey. It checks a JWT token is present in the HTTP header of the request and if present uses the userLoginId to sign in the user on the target domain. I must say that the devil is in the technical details (of CORS) and I'll not explain that here.
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OFBIZ-10304 The "request" attribute type of the userLogin service is wrong
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OFBIZ-9833 Token Based Authentication
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OFBIZ-10562 Document the automated authentification from a domain to another
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