[keycloak-dev] cors setup simplification?

[Bill Burke]

On 5/20/2014 10:19 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
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>> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
>> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
>> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, 20 May, 2014 3:07:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] cors setup simplification?
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>> On 5/20/2014 9:33 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>>> I like the idea of not having to specify the web-origins, but I wonder if
>>> there are use-cases for having web-origins that can't be calculated from
>>> the redirect-uris.
>>>
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>> I just can't see a case for this.  Let's just let users tell us we need
>> this control.  Right now, the web origin is always set to the
>> protocol://hostname of the application or oauth client.
>>
>>> Also, the web-origins is used by Keycloak's own endpoints. In this case
>>> "Cross-Origin Tokens" doesn't make sense.
>>>
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>> You're talking about the Account Service correct?  Well, I'm changing
>> that! :)  How you implemented CORS support for the Account Service is
>> not how web-origins were intended to be used.
>>
>> Tokens are created for a specific client (app or oauth).  The
>> web-origins for that issuedFor client are stuffed into the token created
>> specifically for that client.  Basically, its saying this token is
>> allowed to come from this set of origins.
>>
>> What Web-Origins are not origin permissions for that application/client.
>>    When you specify a web origin for the Account Service (or any other
>> application) in the admin console, this is not origins that are allowed
>> to call the account service!  But instead, the origins allowed for token
>> requests made from tokens created for the Account Service.  Am I making
>> sense?
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> Yep, it makes more sense for the account service that way. I was thinking about token service though, both code->token and refresh-token are called from JS and need web-origins configured on them.
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All the token service is doing is verifying that a code->token 
refresh-token request for that client is coming from the configured 
origin of that client.

Ah, I think I have a better explanation. The Web-Origin setting for an 
application is just the Origin of the application.  Nothing else.


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