greatisgreat

greatisgreat

Is there a way to validate the cookie instead of validating authorization header in guardian?

thanks

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benwilson512

benwilson512

Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

Sure, what have you tried so far?

greatisgreat

greatisgreat OP

I send the cookie from the server using
conn
|> Plug.Conn.put_resp_cookie(“token”,token,http_only: true)
|> Plug.Conn.send_resp(:no_content,“”)

but i get : unauthenticated from Guardian.Plug.EnsureAuthenticated

Is there anything i am missing?

Thanks

jhefreyzz

jhefreyzz

Have you tried adding Guardian.Plug.VerifyCookie to your router.ex pipeline?

I’m not sure about this one, but as I’ve understood, that plug fetches token from cookie (correct me if I’m wrong).

If you have a separate server for frontend, please ensure that you’re adding credentials: 'include' (fetch api) or withCredentials: true (axios).

greatisgreat

greatisgreat OP

Guardian.Plug.VerifyCookie doesnt seem to be working.I get nil trying to get the token using
Guardian.Plug.current_token(conn).

This is the conn

%Plug.Conn{
adapter: {Plug.Cowboy.Conn, :…},
assigns: %{},
before_send: [function<0.93523768/1 in Plug.Telemetry.call/2>],
body_params: %{“folder” => “folder”},
cookies: %{
“token” => “eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJhcGkiLCJleHAiOjE2MjM2ODY0NTcsImlhdCI6MTYyMTI2NzI1NywiaXNzIjoiYXBpIiwianRpIjoiM2U5MWQyYTEtNzU4Yi00MjgwLThjZDgtYmI4NTUzOTMzNDNiIiwibmJmIjoxNjIxMjY3MjU2LCJzdWIiOiJncmVhdGlzZ3JlYXQiLCJ0eXAiOiJhY2Nlc3MifQ.VSCXvWFRna_fao3PSDHdw9hohqgUFShvnv0BnqsInA64dJLY4LmOkJ6QQSMD_nhuw4yu7BjNbTcj8Domt2Uqkw”
},
halted: false,
host: “192.168.1.13”,
method: “POST”,
owner: pid<0.1147.0>,
params: %{“folder” => “folder”},
path_info: [“folder”],
path_params: %{},
port: 4000,
private: %{
ApiWeb.Router => {, %{}},
:guardian_error_handler => Api.UserManager.ErrorHandler,
:guardian_module => Api.UserManager.Guardian,
:phoenix_action => :create,
:phoenix_controller => ApiWeb.FolderController,
:phoenix_endpoint => ApiWeb.Endpoint,
:phoenix_format => “json”,
:phoenix_layout => {ApiWeb.LayoutView, :app},
:phoenix_request_logger => {“request_logger”, “request_logger”},
:phoenix_router => ApiWeb.Router,
:phoenix_view => ApiWeb.FolderView,
:plug_session_fetch => function<1.55231287/1 in Plug.Session.fetch_session/1>
},
query_params: %{},
query_string: “”,
remote_ip: {192, 168, 1, 6},
req_cookies: %{
“token” => “eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJhcGkiLCJleHAiOjE2MjM2ODY0NTcsImlhdCI6MTYyMTI2NzI1NywiaXNzIjoiYXBpIiwianRpIjoiM2U5MWQyYTEtNzU4Yi00MjgwLThjZDgtYmI4NTUzOTMzNDNiIiwibmJmIjoxNjIxMjY3MjU2LCJzdWIiOiJncmVhdGlzZ3JlYXQiLCJ0eXAiOiJhY2Nlc3MifQ.VSCXvWFRna_fao3PSDHdw9hohqgUFShvnv0BnqsInA64dJLY4LmOkJ6QQSMD_nhuw4yu7BjNbTcj8Domt2Uqkw”
},
req_headers: [
{“accept”, “application/json, text/plain, /”},
{“accept-encoding”, “gzip, deflate, br”},
{“accept-language”, “en-IN,en-GB;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7”},
{“connection”, “close”},
{“content-length”, “15”},
{“content-type”, “application/json;charset=UTF-8”},
{“cookie”,
“token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJhcGkiLCJleHAiOjE2MjM2ODY0NTcsImlhdCI6MTYyMTI2NzI1NywiaXNzIjoiYXBpIiwianRpIjoiM2U5MWQyYTEtNzU4Yi00MjgwLThjZDgtYmI4NTUzOTMzNDNiIiwibmJmIjoxNjIxMjY3MjU2LCJzdWIiOiJncmVhdGlzZ3JlYXQiLCJ0eXAiOiJhY2Nlc3MifQ.VSCXvWFRna_fao3PSDHdw9hohqgUFShvnv0BnqsInA64dJLY4LmOkJ6QQSMD_nhuw4yu7BjNbTcj8Domt2Uqkw”},
{“dnt”, “1”},
{“host”, “192.168.1.13:4000”},
{“origin”, “http://192.168.1.13:4000”},
{“referer”, “http://localhost:3000/home”},
{“sec-ch-ua”,
“" Not A;Brand";v="99", "Chromium";v="90", "Google Chrome";v="90"”},
{“sec-ch-ua-mobile”, “?0”},
{“sec-fetch-dest”, “empty”},
{“sec-fetch-mode”, “cors”},
{“sec-fetch-site”, “same-origin”},
{“user-agent”,
“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36”},
{“x-forwarded-for”, “127.0.0.1”},
{“x-forwarded-host”, “localhost:3000”},
{“x-forwarded-port”, “3000”},
{“x-forwarded-proto”, “http”}
],
request_path: “/folder”,
resp_body: nil,
resp_cookies: %{},
resp_headers: [
{“cache-control”, “max-age=0, private, must-revalidate”},
{“x-request-id”, “Fn_l-w9MvNr4aakAAAXj”}
],
scheme: :http,
script_name: ,
secret_key_base: :…,
state: :unset,
status: nil
}

al2o3cr

al2o3cr

I’m not sure if this is the cause of your difficulties, but it’s possible this is causing CORS weirdness since the two hostnames don’t agree. :thinking:

jhefreyzz

jhefreyzz

Did you put option to VerifyCookie plug which key your cookie stored (based on the options section of the doc). In your case, should be token.

greatisgreat

greatisgreat OP

i tried plug Guardian.Plug.VerifyCookie, key: “token” but it did not fix it

greatisgreat

greatisgreat OP

i am using my phoenix server as the proxy in my react website.But i dont think it is the problem because VerifyHeader works.

greatisgreat

greatisgreat OP

i can get the cookie using conn.req_cookies[“token”] but is there some way i can connect it to Guardian.Plug.EnsureAuthenticated to verify the token.

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