I am doing an $.ajax post command and i currently have an authenticated session on the client side. I am trying to figure out how to add the token to the ajax call (as on the server i check the token to see if it matches in my local database. How is it possible to use that same auth token in a generic ajax call ?
Thanks
You add the token as a request header in your authorizer.
To do this, either use one of the including solutions (if you're using the corresponding backend), or implement your own custom authorizer.
If you have to write your own, you can look at the devise authorizer's authorize method for an example of how to add the header.
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There are two separate django projects, So I want both are generating tokens with the same user_id, secret key and same HS256 algorithm and then once Project B sends request along with token, the token should be decrypted and the required response should be send back from Project A. How do I go forward and implement it. Should i use JWT?
You can write a custom authentication.
It can work like this:
Check header for a token and if there is not any then the user is not authenticated.
If there is a token, then send a request to project A with the token and ask if the token is valid and if it is, what is the user.
Then set get the data in project B and do what ever you want.
It's like how frontend frameworks like react and ... works.
You can use any external resources to check if a token is valid or ...
Check here for custom authentication
I have done something similar with an oauth2 provider and 2 django apps.
Take a look here:
https://github.com/DimitrisBovasianos/CustomOauth2Authorization
You have to create a custom authentication backend and a custom middleware to handle the refresh token in case you want to use token based authentication.
I'm working on a Django-REST application that contains APIs that work with login mechanism.
I'm able to create API endpoints for login and logouts.
Login takes username, password and returns auth_token which is around 30 characters.
Logout takes auth_token and destroys it.
In between these login and logouts, there are few API calls that make use of auth_token.
How is it generally implemented ? How are the requests made with auth_token in general?
Where are those tokens stored? How do the backend validates it?
Can someone please explain me how it is done basically?
store the token in browser storage. and remove the token form browser storage on logout logic.
make sure you drf setting DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES list contain TokenAuthentication class before SessionAuthentication , rest_framework.authtoken in you setting install app.
for any api call just attach the token like (Token your_toke) I mean "Toke" then space the your token and attach it to your request authentication header of the ajax request
I'm trying to make a request from my reactjs app existing on "localhost:3000" to my django living in "localhost:8000"
I was expecting some authentication token in header to passed along with the request, but it's not the case. The request seems to be stripped and the token is nowhere to be found. Unless I pass the token in the url as a parameter (which exposes the token that can be decoded. I don't like it), I can't seem to be able to get the token in any way.
so my questions:
is this CORS issue? My understanding is that CORS usually deals with javascripts only, and Django already has the middleware to deal with this.
I'm currently using a GET as method. Does using a POST help in this case? How would the reactjs script be written? Currently it's just a href attached to a NavItem
and ultimately:
How do I pass the token from reactjs to django?
We can perform the implicit grant on the front-end and then configure the Django API in Auth0 and specify its identifier in the audience parameter. This would grant you an access token which you could then use against your API. Your API would then verify the token and check the audience is correct. (This has a good overview of the process https://auth0.com/docs/api-auth/grant/implicit and then with the API https://auth0.com/docs/architecture-scenarios/spa-api)
Basically what we can do is when Auth0 authenticates the user it redirects the user to the app with an access token, and optionally an id token, in the hash fragment of the URI. We can extract that and use the token to call the API on behalf of the user.
So, after we have [created the API in Auth0][3, [defined the endpoints]3, and secured the endpoints we can call the API (by sending the access token in an Authorization header using the Bearer scheme).
If you have any Auth0 specific question please feel free to join over in community.auth0.com you may have better luck finding help/solutions.
The 403 error is telling you that the request is not being processed because something is stopping from process that request 403: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated
As you said probably because the CORS, try to follow the guide bellow of how to install Django-cors
https://github.com/mbrochh/django-graphql-apollo-react-demo#add-jwt-authentication-to-django
I'm currently building a web application whose backend is purely build in API Gateway/Lambda. I build a custom JSON Web Token (JWT) authorizer to authorize the users. At the moment I'm passing token in header field.
Unfortunately, I'm only able to define a header field in which the token is send to API Gateway.My applications stores the token in a cookie.
Is there any option to access the cookie directly so that it can authenticate using lambda.
For example:
Now I'm passing:-
method.request.header.Authorizer
But I need somehting like this :-
methods.request.header.Cookie
Any workaround ? Thanks!
Now you should be able to access all the headers including Cookie header, using Custom Authorizers of the REQUEST type. Recently AWS introduced this feature to allow access to more than Token Header.
I am trying to develop an application that should eventually replace an existing (non-Ember) one and provide additional functionality.
For a start, for anything not yet implemented in the new app, I want to redirect users to the existing one, using the latter's single-sign-on capability. The workflow I imagined is this:
User logged in to new (Ember) app clicks link or button there
New app makes an API call to an endpoint that returns an SSO token
New app generated link including SSO token, opens it (in new or same window)
I use ember-simple-auth to authenticate the user for API calls that return user-specific information, using a JSON web token that contains the user id.
For step 2 above I would need to include that token in the API call, but I am at loss how, and even where to implement the call. Do I need an Ember.Route for this (where I could throw in the AuthenticatedRouteMixin)? I would not consider the SSO token to be part of my model, so that does not seem right. Can I get the session's token somehow and include it in a direct ajax call? Should I?
ember-simple-auth provides the SessionService where you can access that information.
My recommendation is to use ember-ajax to make the actual request, and override the ajax service to call the session services authorize method.
Then you need to implement your authorizer to authorize that request.
The detail implementation depends on your authorizer and how you want to include the token in your request. As header, query param, or in the body.