[keycloak-dev] cors setup simplification?

[Stian Thorgersen]

----- Original Message -----
> 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 3:31:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] cors setup simplification?
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> On 5/20/2014 10:19 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> 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.

The origin of the application making the request right? 

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