[aerogear-dev] [auth] 401 vs. 403

[Kris Borchers]

Ah, I see. Hmm, yeah I guess the more I think about it, 401 on auth endpoints and 403 on "Not Authorized" endpoints makes sense instead of 401. I am indifferent on the header on 401 so if we want to add it that's fine, I'll still just be checking for the 401.

My next question would be, what value would we assign to the WWW-Authenticate header for non-Basic auth?

On Oct 2, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
>> To be honest, I don't remember the full discussion either but I am only
>> concerned with 401 on the login endpoint. If we did 403 with
>> WWW-Authenticate header, I would be ok with that. I think I remember
>> fighting for 401 over 403 because I needed to know it was an auth error so
>> if it's 403 and there is a WWW-Authenticate header, then I would know it's
>> an auth error.
> 
> IMO WWW-Authenticate on 403 is wrong.
> 
> However, WWW-Authenticate MUST be included on 401 (according to the RFC)
> 
> Regarding endpoints:
> 
> * 'service endpoint' (e.g. /projects, /tasks etc)
> ==>  I think I like what amazon does, they give back 403 with NO
> WWW-Authenticate header, and tell you 'denied'. IMO that's correct for
> 'service endpoints', which are protected and you don't provide the
> _valid_ token
> 
> * login endpoint:
> I think that 401 fits fine here, right ?
> (which perhaps... should include the WWW-Authenticate on that 401)
> 
> 
> NOTE: I don't want to change the current design, as it was already
> discussed - but just raising some items, while doing a deeper dive on
> 'auth', because of native iOS
> 
> -Matthias
> 
>> 
>> If that is the proper way, then I will make it work on the JS side. I am all
>> for making the JS side "easier" but not at the expense of doing things in a
>> way people don't expect.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> On Oct 2, 2012, at 6:42 AM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> wrote:
>> 
>> For some reason that I don't remember now, we discussed about 401 x 403 when
>> the REST authentication API was sent, people decided for 401.
>> 
>> I'm not picky on it because this is easy to change and only related to our
>> TODO. We discussed about authentication methods like amazon s3 in the past
>> https://github.com/abstractj/aerogear-security/blob/deltaspike/README.md
>> 
>> We have tons of changes to do now, my only concern at the current TODO app
>> was to get it done to j1.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I think they return 403 since they (like us) lack the WWW-Authenticate
>> header.
>> 
>> Which is required on 401:
>> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.47
>> 
>> -M
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I noticed that with Amazon's S3 (for instance) they return 403 when
>> you are not authorized. Not really sure, but forbidden (403) is
>> perhaps fine when accessing a protected REST endpoint (versus 401) ?
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> -Matthias
>> 
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