[keycloak-user] 401 http status instead of 203 in case of unauthorized access to specific route

[Sebastien Blanc]

Hi,

If you are using your node app just to expose APIs that your SPA will
consume, you should flag your node-ap as "bearer-only" (in the keycloak
config) , this will return a 401 if you user is not authenticated (and not
attempt the redirect 302).
This also means that your SPA must obtain the token by using the Keycloak
Javascript library.

Sebi


On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:45 AM Radovan Kuka <kuka.radovan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am new to keycloak and I tryed to use keycloak-connect to protect routes
> on my server. From my SPA, I make a fetch call to the server route that
> uses protect middleware. In case of unauthenticated user, keycloak-connect
> returns redirect to login page (302 with location header). Problem is that,
> original request was fetch and 302 causes that, browser will call GET
> request for keycloak login page. This will not cause full browser redirect
> to that login page. Wouldn't it be better to send 401 Unauthorized and let
> browser to handle redirect itself? Or am I doing something wrong?
>
> This is related part in my code.
>
> const keycloakConfig = {
>   authServerUrl: application.SERVER_URL,
>   clientId: application.CLIENT_ID,
>   realm: application.REALM,
>   public: true
> };
>
> const keycloak = new Keycloak({ cookies: true }, keycloakConfig);
>
> app.use(
>   keycloak.middleware({
>     logout: '/logout'
>   })
> );
>
> // Use routes
> app.use('/api/v1/', keycloak.protect(), api);
>
>
> Thank you for any help.
> Radovan
>
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