Due to the security risks of implicit Grant flow, our Javascript adapter
only supports Auth Code Grant flow. Our IDP has an extra step of
allowing you to specify a valid CORS origin for an application. Anybody
see any problems with this kind of approach? Implicit Grant Flow just
seemed really risky to even support as a protocol.
On 2/6/2015 4:40 PM, Josh Mandel wrote:
Hi Adam,
I'm not 100% sure what you're envisioning as an alternative to the
implicit flow, but if I'm reading between the lines of your question
correctly, there are two key parts to the answer, because the implicit
flow is designed to accomplish two key goals (vs. the authorization code
grant):
1. Shave off one round-trip HTTP request (the step of exchanging a code
for a token)
2. Avoid unnecessarily leading the token to the client's back-end web server
Goal 1 is straightforward. For goal 2: OAuth2's implicit flow takes
advantage of the fact that a URL's "#hash" is not sent to the server
with an HTTP request. By embedding the token in a "#hash", it won't
inadvertently appear in server logs, for example. So with the implicit
flow, I can (for example) statically host a browser-based app at Amazon
S3 without having access tokens leak to Amazon. (Of course, if your
threat model includes a compromised server, then bets are off on this
point.)
Hope this helps,
-Josh
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Adam Lewis
<adam.le...@motorolasolutions.com
<mailto:adam.le...@motorolasolutions.com>> wrote:
Hi,____
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Having spent most of my time with native apps and web apps, I now am
looking at use cases where I need to implement a user-agent-based
app. The Implicit flow seems to be optimized for this.____
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To test my understanding, this flow is for a JavaScript client (or
similar) executing within a web browser.____
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At step (a) the client directs the UA to the authorization server,
but the authorization server redirects the UA to a web-hosted client
resource. Why? It says so that the web-hosted client resources can
push javascript (or other) back into the UA so it can extract the
access token in the fragment; but some sort of javascript is already
running in the browser, since it initiated the authorization request
in the first place. So why this extra step? Why not treat the
javascript client running in the UA like a native app and handle the
redirect uri?____
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I know this was well thought out when the spec was written, so
trying to figure out what I’m missing?____
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Tx!
adam____
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