I have a Web API developed with ASP.Net Core. I also have a client app developed with Next.js and it uses NextAuth.js to handle the authentication.
In the UI, when a user is authenticated, I have access to the access token from Facebook.
My question is how can I use this access token to authenticate the requests sent to the back-end API.
This is the back-end code used to register the Facebook authentication scheme (it is all standard):
builder.Services.AddAuthentication()
.AddFacebook(
facebookOptions =>
{
facebookOptions.AppId = "<my_app_id>";
facebookOptions.AppSecret = "<my_app_secret>";
});
I want to construct a Postman request that can authenticate my user using a specific access token but I do not know where to put this access token and whether this is possible at all.
Just sending the request like this (without any modifications) results in visualizing the Facebook login page.
Your Asp.NetCore project integrates Facebook login. After logging in, the token you get can only access protected resources in the current project, such as: [Authorize].
If you want to access Facebook's resources, you need to write your own code to get the token and then access the resources.
1. How to Get Facebook Access Token in a couple of minutes: 2020 guide
2. How to get current user access token from Facebook SDK in C#? Not the App access token
After you get facebook access_token, then you can access Facebook's resources.
I'm trying to learn how to utilize auth0 to handle user authentication for an api I am currently creating.
My api has two endpoints:
Login endpoint: /api/login
Request access token endpoint: /api/auth?code={code}
Here the authentication flow is:
User goes to the login endpoint of my api.
User is redirected to auth0 ui.
User inputs their login credentials.
Auth0 redirects back to /api/auth where a request for an access_token is made using the login code.
Firstly, is my understanding the Oauth authentication flow correct? If so, how best should my api handle the initial login redirect to auth0?
Because at the moment when I hit up /api/login from the front-end ui it just returns the html of the login page at auth0. Should I instead return a 302 with the redirect url or is it possible to create an endpoint where the user inputs the username & password via my api and avoids the redirect?
---update---
After a user has authenticated via auth0 they receive a access_token and id_token which should my api use to verify the user is who they say they are?
Not sure if my understanding is correct but I belive that my frontend ui is the OAuth client application and my API service is an OAuth resource server. As such does my api need to call out to auth0 /userinfo to verify the user?
Assuming you are trying to protect an end-user application (your question wasn't clear on that), my understanding is if you are using Auth0, you likely won't need an /api/login and api/auth API. If you are using Auth0 you can get those things during your authentication via Auth0.
I would say your APPLICATION (not API) would redirect the user to the Auth0 login endpoint. You would do that by incorporating the Auth0 SDK of choice, depending on what you're building. For example, if you're building a web app, you may choose to incorporate auth0.js and call webAuth.authorize() to trigger the login. During that login, if you have configured an API within Auth0, and you provide the proper Scope and Audience during your login, your response will return an API token.
Then your user is in a state on the client side where you are logged in, and you have a token. You can then provide that token to your API, and your API can validate that token as needed. Auth0 also has various libraries for token validation (like this spring security one, for example).
Lastly, the question on which oAuth flow to use, that also depends on what type of app you're protecting. There are again Auth0 docs to help. The flow depends on if you're building a server-side web app, a SPA, a native app, etc. Your question was a little confusing, and it sounded a bit like you are building an API and want to protect that. If there is no client-side app (only machine-to-machine API calls), then you wouldn't be dealing with HTML and login pages. You'd likely be getting into the Client Credentials flow, which last I checked was only included for Enterprise Auth0 users.
How can I use the existing facebook access token without additional authentication. I have a server system which will give valid facebook access tokens to clients.
The flow looks like this:
Client redirects user to facebook through server API
User authenticates
Server API handles redirect
Server API sends access_token to client (via WebSockets)
Client does job with graph API
Is this possible when using parse.com? (IOs and Android SDKs)
I am trying to use Facebook Rest API in my application . I wanted to generate authentication token and using that generate page access token which can be used to post on page.
When I was going through the authentication process I found that all authentication flow uses redirection to main Facebook application. I want to have an authentication flow in which I don’t have to redirect to generate authentication toke and page token. Is there any way to do this.
I am implementing a REST API that allows the user to create an object called channel that represents their Youtube Channel. Now as a part of this request I need the user to Authorize the request with Google's OAuth service and provide the oauth token and token secret.
What is the best way to implement this kind of API. I am using OAuth 1.0a.