I'm about to build a console application that needs access to the authenticated YouTube Data API. Calling the API's themselves is not a problem, I know quite well how to make and process HTTPS requests.
I've already gotten the API key and the Client ID. No problems there, either.
The problem is the authentication.
I've checked here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/authentication#installed-apps
On the "Installed applications" tab, in step two, it instructs on how to set up a url to call to do the authentication step. All good so far. But before programming anything, I thought I'd try and see what that url does in the browser.
Turns out it just displays a login prompt. Well how about that. That won't work in this kind of console application. The idea is, presumably, that the user is somehow shown this webpage and be instructed to login and allow access. Then, somehow, by some kind of magic perhaps, the access token is sent back to my console application.
Two things I'm not quite sure about:
1) How do I prompt for the username and/or password in the console app and send that to the authentication URL?
2) How would I get the access token back from it?
The biggest problem is that the API seems to require a browser... Which isn't there. My console application will (eventually) run unattended, so starting up a browser and displaying a webpage and doing nothing until it returns a code, is out of the question. I need to somehow supply the authentication page a username/password and get back the code right away.
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These don't work in IE and the application that I am calling them from must be using IE - I can't change that. Is there another way to pass within the URL?
https://[AccountSID:Token]#api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts
https://api.twilio.com/2019-04-01/Accounts?AccountSid=[AccountSid]&AuthToken=[Token]
When I try these in an IE browser, it keeps popping up asking for the credentials.
Tried both formats
https://[AccountSID:Token]#api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts
https://api.twilio.com/2019-04-01/Accounts?AccountSid=[AccountSid]&AuthToken=[Token]
When I try these in an IE browser, it keeps popping up asking for the credentials.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
We do not recommend that you make API calls to Twilio from the client-side regardless of which browser you are using. To make an API call from the client-side you need to include your credentials in the page somewhere, and if you do that you run the risk of a malicious user taking the credentials and abusing your account.
Instead, we recommend you run a server through which you can proxy requests to the Twilio API. That way, the server can store your credentials and no users can get hold of them. You can then make calls to the server through a form or an XMLHttpRequest from the browser.
I've created an app using react native and which is using an IdentityServer 4 server to for authentication. I'm using react-native-app-auth to perform the authentication.
When I click login the app tries to open the Identity Server login page in Safari and iOS shows a standard dialog to say:
"myApp" Wants to Use "myIdServerUrl" to Sign In.
The problem is, where it should say myIdServerUrl, it actually says (null) as you can see in the screenshot.
Does anyone know why this might be? I'm not sure if its something I've misconfigured on the app side or something I'm not sending back from IdentityServer that I should be. I would have thought it would have just shown the URL that I'm requesting but that's not the case as the login page opens correctly when I click continue, so I haven't provided a null URL or anything.
If anyone knows where iOS looks when populating this dialog that would be a great help.
Thanks a lot!
EDIT
After a bit more investigation I've found that a CONNECT request is made to the Identity Server before showing the dialog. This suggests to me that the data it's using is somewhere in the certificate as the CONNECT request is where an SSL connection is requested for HTTPS sites. I'm still not sure what field I'm missing though. I have the Subject Alternative Name populated so I'm not sure what else it could be looking for.
EDIT
It seems, if the URL has a recognizable top-level domain, the domain name (as defined here) will be reported by the dialog. For example, some.host.name.zw will be referred as name.zw and video.google.co.uk as google.co.uk.
Otherwise, ("null") is produced, as in case of some.host.name.local, etc.
It is still an empirical finding, I don't have any official reference to this, but one that is easy to test.
I'm working on an app using facebook & oauth. The app lives inside a facebook canvas, and the authentication is done server side. The app is done w/ Ruby on Rails 3.2, using Koala for dealing with the api (and mongodb as backend, for what it's worth), and hosted on heroku.
So, I supply the heroku url as redirect_url for the callback. Which makes the user go out of the canvas after the authentication, and well, I want it to stay inside. I read a few threads about this that suggested I redirect to the canvas url with js once the authentication is done. I did that, but now it seems that my session token is never set, and the user goes through the auth flow every time he tries to see a non-public page (which means he loops on the welcome page, having an "invisible" exchange with facebook each time).
I don't really get what I'm doing wrong here, so any help is welcome. If you need more informations, just ask.
Thanks for your time!
So I found what was my problem : the page my canvas pointed to was a "public" page, and did not handle anything authentication related, meaning it didn't parse the signed_request, or anything else. I ended up setting a special endpoint for the canvas in charge of handling the signed_request logic, and now it works as one would expect.
I have a BlackBerry java-based app that works with salesforce data and uses oauth 2 for authentication. It has been working fine until recently when users have been complaining that once they get to the accept/deny salesforce oauth page, clicking on Accept button displays a salesforce 404 page.
I attached a debugger to the bb simulator (OS7) and found that everything was working fine up to the point where a POST is made to salesforce on pressing the ACCEPT button in the final stage of authentication/authorisation via salesforce oauth2 user agent flow. At this point, the post would succeed and the response body would contain some markup with a small JavaScript block that just performs a document.location.href assignment to force the browser to navigate to a new URL. I noticed that the URL was not what I was expecting - I was expecting to see the redirect_uri callback address + the access token etc data appended to the end of it (as per the sf oauth2 documentation). What I saw instead was a URL that when navigated to leads the user back to a login page with a message saying that they are attempting to access a resource that requires authentication.
If I perform the same flow in say chrome the URL after the post is what I expect. This all used to work just fine so I am confused as to why it would stop working all of a sudden. I've heard that Salesforce changed their oauth 2 implementation back in late 2011 slightly so I wonder if this has broken my client although I don't see how.
As an experiment I removed all of my code except for an embedded BrowserField and made it navigate to the oauth URL as constructed by combining consumer key and various other values as per the documentation and it still fails with a 404 page at the point of clicking on the accept button after a successful login.
If I try the same bootstrap oauth URL in the built in bb browser the full authentication flow works fine and I am eventually redirected to the final callback URL with access token information appended.
Has anyone else out there had trouble with oauth2 user agent flow on BrowserField (from field2 package)?
Have you tried using the "scope=mobile" parameter? This parameter puts you into a very simplified oauth flow that is optimized for blackberry...we've found they generally have trouble getting through the richer flows designed for iOS/Android. That said, I haven't heard of them having issues on BB7...only the 5 and sometimes 6 series
If that fails, could you open a support case with us?
Try also "display=mobile" and "scope=api web" (with a space), depending on what you are trying to access after OAuth.
I am new to developing a Salesforce app and I am using OAuth 1 for authentication.
I am able to generate the Request Token, and I re-direct the user to the salesforce site.
Once I enter my credentials, I get a
Remote Access Authorization Error
There was a problem in setting up your remote access
with
oauth_error_code=1800
In my Login History page, it shows Status as Success for Application type OAuth.
I don't get any entry in my Debug Logs page.
I have enabled Development Mode.
Any ideas whats wrong?
So https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/success is a stub URL for callbacks - and that is the screen you are seeing there, and the access_token variable is your session ID for the user. So the OAuth flow is working correctly.
In the code, you might check to see if oauthResponse.access_token is getting set correctly. If so, it looks like:
sfw.login( setupHomeView );
That is what should tell it to move from that page to the next UI page.
You might also check out the Force.com Mobile SDK (link). It also includes PhoneGap and has a great OAuth wrapper built in.