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

[Sebastien Blanc]

Is your SPA served by the Nodeapp ? in this case the oauth flow/redirect
can just happen. I think it's was this example shows :
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-nodejs-connect/tree/master/example

But if your SPA needs to call through XHR your backend APIs you will need
an access token on the client side ...


On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 10:14 AM Radovan Kuka <kuka.radovan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sebi,
> thank you for your prompt answer. I would like to avoid to use
> keycloak.js, if it is possible. I am working on app that is using sensitive
> bank data and I don't consider it secure to store access and also refresh
> tokens in javascript's memmory. Is there any chance I can use authorization
> code grant flow with keycloak-connect?
>
> R.
>
> On 3 May 2019, at 09:51, Sebastien Blanc <sblanc at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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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