[keycloak-user] KeycloakSecurityContext returns NULL using Tomcat Adapter

Bill Burke bburke at redhat.com
Thu Feb 18 09:08:22 EST 2016


Log a jira.  I'll look into fixing it in the next few weeks.

On 2/18/2016 8:22 AM, LEONARDO NUNES wrote:
> Hi Stian, thanks for your replay.
>
> The problem is that /movies is a page that doesn't require the user to 
> be logged in.
> But when he is logged in and goes to /movies, I need retrieve user 
> information.
> If I add a security-constraint for movies the user will be redirected 
> to the login page, and this can't happen.
>
> Is there another way I can do this?
>
>
>
>
> From: Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com <mailto:sthorger at redhat.com>>
> Reply-To: "stian at redhat.com <mailto:stian at redhat.com>" 
> <stian at redhat.com <mailto:stian at redhat.com>>
> Date: quinta-feira, 18 de fevereiro de 2016 11:12
> To: Leonardo Nunes <leo.nunes at gjccorp.com.br 
> <mailto:leo.nunes at gjccorp.com.br>>
> Cc: "keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org 
> <mailto:keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org>" <keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org 
> <mailto:keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org>>
> Subject: Re: KeycloakSecurityContext returns NULL using Tomcat Adapter
>
> This is down to the fact that there are differences between different 
> containers. In reality you can only guarantee 
> that KeycloakSecurityContext as long as the request requires 
> authentication. Add a security-constraint for movies and you're fine.
>
> On 18 February 2016 at 12:50, LEONARDO NUNES <leo.nunes at gjccorp.com.br 
> <mailto:leo.nunes at gjccorp.com.br>> wrote:
>
>     Stian,
>
>     I have an application deployed on Tomcat 7 using the Tomcat Adapter.
>     When i'm logged in and I go to a non-secured URL,
>     KeycloakSecurityContext returns null.
>     I deployed the same application to the Keycloak Standalone Server,
>     there I don't have this problem.
>
>     At Tomcat the code below returns null when called from /movies/,
>     and works when called from /article/
>     At Keycloak Standalone Server /movies/ and /article/ works fine.
>     (KeycloakSecurityContext)
>     request.getAttribute(KeycloakSecurityContext.class.getName());
>
>     Why is this happening?
>
>     In my web.xml I have only one security-constraint securing /article/*
>
>     WEB.XML:
>     <security-constraint>
>         <web-resource-collection>
>     <web-resource-name>Articles</web-resource-name>
>     <url-pattern>/article/*</url-pattern>
>         </web-resource-collection>
>         <auth-constraint>
>     <role-name>user</role-name>
>         </auth-constraint>
>     </security-constraint>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Leonardo Nunes
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