[keycloak-dev] Fwd: Preflight for token refresh

Alain Penders alain at rexorient.com
Tue Dec 2 09:43:13 EST 2014


I'm testing my UI using GWTs Super Dev Mode, which means its origin is set
to http://127.0.0.1:8888.    Keycloak runs on http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Stian Thorgersen <stian at redhat.com> wrote:

> It's the correct approach to add the preflight. Please send a PR and we'll
> merge it.
>
> Out of curiosity do you know why it's sending a preflight in your app? It
> doesn't when I test it out here, which AFAIK is correct according to spec
> (content-type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded and there's no custom
> headers set).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alain Penders" <alain at rexorient.com>
> > To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, 2 December, 2014 3:04:50 PM
> > Subject: [keycloak-dev] Fwd: Preflight for token refresh
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm building a new app using GWT 2.7 using the Keycloak javascript
> adapter
> > and GWT jsInterop. This works extremely well.
> >
> > The problem I ran into is if I walk away for 5 minutes and then try to do
> > something, the token refresh fails on preflight. As shown in the
> > documentation, I call keycloak.updateToken(30) to refresh the base token
> in
> > case it has expired. Since in this case it has indeed expired, keycloak
> > makes a call to /auth/realms/<myrealm>/tokens/refresh. The OPTIONS call
> to
> > this location doesn't contain the Accept headers, and my app ends up
> dead in
> > the water.
> >
> > To fix this, I added the following code to OpenIDConnectService:
> >
> > /**
> > * CORS preflight path for refresh token requests
> > *
> > * @return
> > */
> > @Path("refresh")
> > @OPTIONS
> > @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
> > public Response refreshAccessTokenPreflight() {
> > if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
> > logger.debugv("cors request from: {0}",
> > request.getHttpHeaders().getRequestHeaders().getFirst("Origin"));
> > }
> > return Cors.add(request, Response.ok()).auth().preflight().build();
> > }
> >
> > If this wasn't the correct solution for my problem, I'd enjoy hearing
> where I
> > went wrong.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alain
> >
> >
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