I am running a Go server that generates JWT tokens. My original plan was to send the tokens using an http.Redirect using the token string as part of the url.
This doesn't appear to work because I'm using Firebase static hosting and hence only have client side routing.
How can I push my token? Headers maybe?
The flow goes as follows
ref.authWithCustomToken("AUTH_TOKEN", function(error, authData) {
func (h *myHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if !cas.IsAuthenticated(r) {
cas.RedirectToLogin(w, r)
return
}
if r.URL.Path == "/logout" {
cas.RedirectToLogout(w, r)
return
}
generatedToken := generateToken("uid") // token is created using a uid and a secret
redirectURL := websiteURL + generatedToken
println(redirectURL)
println(generatedToken)
http.Redirect(w, r, redirectURL, http.StatusFound) // I attempt to send the token using a redirect. This doesn't seem to work though since the static server only supports routing for '/'.
//html.WriteTo(w)
}
If I understand the flow correctly, then what you're missing is an end point that your app user talks to and that can return the token to that user.
A workaround for this would be to have the user app pass in a highly unguessable value (a "request ID") in step 2, something like a UUID. The token server can then write the token into the Firebase Database in step 5 in /tokens/<requestID>
, where the client is listening for it.