This would be a good answer for me except that I cannot get header based auth to work so I am attempting to do it with forms and am also getting CSRF. Any solution? I am trying to create a new topic using the API.
We will need more information to be able to help. Can you share a code snippet showing how you are trying to use the header based authentication?
The problem I’ve been having stems mostly from whenever I try to make a call with header based auth, the accepted headers are always “User-Api-Key” and “User-Client-Id” instead of “Api-Key” and “Api-Username” so I get CORS errors. I do not believe I need user based keys. I am just trying to do a simple authenticated request to create a new topic. If I try to use the “User-Api-Key” I am getting a 403 errors.
This is sample code (Angular Typescript), but should be similar to other setups:
createNewTopic(postBody: any) {
let url = "myserver.com/posts.json";
let CATEGORY_ARTICLES = 6;
let topicContent = `
<p>Some content
</p>
<p>Did that work?</p>
`;
let post = {
"title": "Tdk Test 1",
"raw": topicContent,
"category": CATEGORY_ARTICLES,
"target_usernames": "tdekoekkoek",
"archetype": "",
"created_at": new Date()
}
let headers = new HttpHeaders()
.set("Accept", "application/json")
.set("User-Api-Key", DISCOURSE_API_KEY)
.set("User-Key", "system")
.set("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
let options = {headers: headers};
return this.http.post(url, post, options);
}
user-api-key and user-client-id are a completely different method of authentication. Regular API keys won’t work with those headers. What happens when you use the correct header names? (api-key and api-username)
I get a CORS error because the server is expecting User-Api-Key. I examine the expected headers in the OPTIONS response and that is what it says. There is a similar topic elsewhere on this forum where a user was experiencing this when calling from a javascript app.
Oh, so you are trying to make this request from a client-side javascript application? That is not permitted for numerous reasons. For example, if you include an admin API key in the source code of your javascript app, any user could gain full admin access to your forum. Here is a previous topic on the subject.
Yes that is what I am trying to do. That should be more clearly documented. That has been my whole strategy since getting started with Discourse. I appreciate your help. Been battling with this for days and reading the documentation. Will have to rethink my whole approach as I am currently building a serverless application though I do have access to a node.js server.
This isn’t a restriction specific to Discourse - in general it is a bad idea to include admin credentials in the source code of a website.
If you can make the Discourse API call from your node.js server, that would probably be the best solution. If you need your application to be purely client-side, then requesting user-specific api keys is an option, although their setup is a lot more complex: User API keys specification
Frankly accessing APIs from client applications with CORS enabled is extremely common and standard. I can’t believe there is not a more secure way of doing this. An entire industry revolves around hosted APIs that are accessed from different domains. As for accessing with user api, I’ve seen how to create those, but am unclear about what the actual credentials are. I am always getting 403 permission denied when using that method.
Creo que me encuentro en una situación similar.
Un poco sobre el caso de uso:
Utilizo Discourse como backend y construyo el frontend en VueJS. Tengo la intención de usar únicamente la API REST. Para cada usuario de nuestra plataforma, he creado una clave de API de usuario y utilizo ambas cabeceras (Api-Key y Api-Username) para la autenticación.
Cada usuario se autentica de forma segura con nuestros servidores y luego recibe su token de Discourse para la autenticación. A continuación, deseamos usar este token (en un frontend VueJS) para enviar solicitudes a la API (publicar temas, publicaciones, editar, etc.).
Nada está codificado de forma rígida; todos los tokens se reciben tras una autenticación adecuada.
El problema:
Recibo un mensaje de error de CORS, aunque lo he habilitado en app.yml y lo he configurado en la sección de Seguridad de la configuración de administrador.
El error: El campo de cabecera de la solicitud api-key no está permitido por Access-Control-Allow-Headers
¿Estoy experimentando el mensaje de error de CORS por la misma razón? ¿Por qué se bloquean las solicitudes CORS al utilizar las cabeceras “Api-Key” y “Api-Username”? Debo estar malinterpretando su caso de uso.
EDITO:
Tengo una teoría sobre mi malentendido. Cuando creo una clave de API de usuario desde el endpoint “Generate an api_key for a user” de la API REST, ¿tiene esa clave permisos administrativos? ¿No es simplemente una clave de usuario para publicar y comentar? Si es así, entonces entiendo la restricción.
Por favor, corrígeme si es necesario.
@david ¿no podría Discourse simplemente hacer que el servidor firme un secreto de sesión con un HMAC, y este secreto de sesión, a su vez, podría usarse para firmar cosas en la sesión dada? Si se roba, entonces presumiblemente la cookie de sesión o el nonce CSRF tampoco lo harían. Es un poco como una cadena de certificados: no tienes que poner la clave raíz en el navegador.
Estos son solo para la API de administración. La forma en que lo entendí es que para los clientes de JavaScript necesitas, como se mencionó anteriormente, consultar User API keys specification .