km751
I have a problem with authenticating WebSocket connection.
I use Phoenix and Vue + phoenix-socket as my front-end, and everything was fine before adding authentication.
The connection can be established and data is transferred properly but after that, it starts sending errors and I don’t understand why.
My browser console looks like this:
receive: ok feed:1 phx_reply (1) {response: {…}, status: "ok"}
Joined successfully {feed: Array(3)}
WebSocket connection to 'ws://localhost:4000/socket/websocket?vsn=1.0.0' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 403
push: phoenix heartbeat (2) {}
receive: ok phoenix phx_reply (2) {response: {…}, status: "ok"}
WebSocket connection to 'ws://localhost:4000/socket/websocket?vsn=1.0.0' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 403
Phoenix:
[info] CONNECTED TO TweeterApiWeb.UserSocket in 0┬Ás
Transport: :websocket
Serializer: Phoenix.Socket.V1.JSONSerializer
Parameters: %{"token" => "eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJ0d2VldGVyX2FwaSIsImV4cCI6MTU5NjkxMjAxNiwiaWF0IjoxNTk0NDkyODE2LCJpc3MiOiJ0d2VldGVyX2FwaSIsImp0aSI6IjViYWFlMDRlLTBjMTYtNDEyMi05Y2VlLWZmMzQ2OWM1YWE1YiIsIm5iZiI6MTU5NDQ5MjgxNSwic3ViIjoiMSIsInR5cCI6ImFjY2VzcyJ9.-ZJMyyEBKd0_nHYUBGdaI0qdHn1nuWtpG8sEUHqikBuWTB2sKw9Sk36OsUpXBS5ozRpe2l2VXq8NI58HydIhZA", "vsn" => "1.0.0"}
[debug] QUERY OK source="tweets" db=0.0ms idle=875.0ms
SELECT t0."id", t0."content", t0."comment_count", t0."retweet_count", t0."like_count", t0."profile_id", t0."inserted_at", t0."updated_at" FROM "tweets" AS t0 WHERE (t0."profile_id" = $1) [1]
[info] JOINED feed:1 in 0┬Ás
Parameters: %{}
[info] REFUSED CONNECTION TO TweeterApiWeb.UserSocket in 0┬Ás
Transport: :websocket
Serializer: Phoenix.Socket.V1.JSONSerializer
Parameters: %{"vsn" => "1.0.0"}
It looks like the connection is refused because there is no token in params but I only check the authentication when the socket connects, so the token should be completely unnecessary once the connection is established, right?
Here is my user_socket.ex:
defmodule TweeterApiWeb.UserSocket do
use Phoenix.Socket
alias TweeterApi.Accounts
alias TweeterApi.Accounts.Guardian
## Channels
channel "feed:*", TweeterApiWeb.FeedChannel
@impl true
def connect(%{"token" => token}, socket, _connect_info) do
case Guardian.resource_from_token(token) do
{:ok, user, _claims} ->
current_profile = Accounts.get_profile_by(user_id: user.id)
{:ok, assign(socket, :current_profile_id, current_profile.id)}
{:error, _reason} ->
:error
end
end
def connect(_params, _socket, _connect_info), do: :error
@impl true
def id(socket), do: "users_socket:#{socket.assigns.current_profile_id}"
end
The channel code:
defmodule TweeterApiWeb.FeedChannel do
use TweeterApiWeb, :channel
alias TweeterApi.Tweets
def join("feed:" <> current_profile_id, _params, socket) do
if String.to_integer(current_profile_id) === socket.assigns.current_profile_id do
current_profile_tweets = Tweets.list_profile_tweets(current_profile_id)
response = %{
feed:
Phoenix.View.render_many(current_profile_tweets, TweeterApiWeb.TweetView, "tweet.json")
}
{:ok, response, socket}
else
{:error, %{reason: "Not authorized"}}
end
end
def terminate(_reason, socket) do
{:ok, socket}
end
end
and Vue.js code:
<script>
import UserProfileSection from '@/components/sections/UserProfileSection.vue'
import TimelineSection from '@/components/sections/TimelineSection.vue'
import FollowPropositionsSection from '@/components/sections/FollowPropositionsSection.vue'
import NewTweetForm from '@/components/sections/NewTweetForm.vue'
import { mapGetters } from 'vuex'
import { Socket } from 'phoenix-socket'
export default {
name: 'AppFeed',
components: {
UserProfileSection,
TimelineSection,
FollowPropositionsSection,
NewTweetForm,
},
data() {
return {
tweets: [],
}
},
computed: {
...mapGetters('auth', ['currentProfileId', 'token'])
},
mounted() {
const WEBSOCKET_URL = 'ws://localhost:4000'
const socket = new Socket(`${WEBSOCKET_URL}/socket`, {
params: { token: this.token },
logger: (kind, msg, data) => {
console.log(`${kind}: ${msg}`, data)
},
})
socket.connect()
this.channel = socket.channel('feed:' + this.currentProfileId, {})
this.channel
.join()
.receive('ok', (resp) => {
console.log('Joined successfully', resp)
console.log(resp)
this.tweets = resp.feed
})
.receive('error', (resp) => {
console.log('Unable to join', resp)
})
}
}
</script>
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kokolegorille
Hello and welcome…
It seems You are using an outdated library.
This one should be better
https://www.npmjs.com/package/phoenix
BTW You did not mention your phoenix version
km751
My phoenix version is 1.5.3.
I have switched the library, but nothing changed.
kokolegorille
I am not using vue, but I always pass the token…
km751
So what should the code look like?
Isn’t this part of code supposed to take care of passing the token with the WebSocket?
lud
Can you see vsn as 2.0 now ?
km751
Yes but the rest stayed the same.
kokolegorille
My code is very similar…
But your log shows no token in params for the second call.
sb8244
What does the web request that the JavaScript makes to initiate the WebSocket look like? It will include
tokenas a GET parameter.Your initial request makes it look like token is being passed up, but then a second request is made that fails. Do you have 2 Socket connections by chance?
Why does
"token" => "eyJhbGciOiJIUzU..."differ from the second call? Why are there 2 calls at all?Few high level thoughts are that you are on an old serializer version (1 instead of 2) and using phoenix-socket library. I would suggest making sure you’re on the latest versions possible—in general a good thing—although that is likely not the actual issue at hand.
edit: Have you tried
console.log(this.token)in the mounted function? What if it is being mounted without a token?km751
I had a second socket connection in my vuex module used in one of the child components.
Thank you for your help!