cliquet-fxa 1.2.0

Firefox Accounts support in Cliquet

Firefox Accounts support in Cliquet

Cliquet-fxa enables authentication in Cliquet using Firefox Accounts OAuth2 bearer tokens.

It provides:

• An authentication policy class;

• Integration with Cliquet cache backend for token verifications;

• Integration with Cliquet for heartbeat view checks;

• Some endpoints to perform the OAuth dance (optional).

• Cliquet documentation

• Issue tracker

Installation

As stated in the official documentation, Firefox Accounts OAuth integration is currently limited to Mozilla relying services.

Install the Python package:

pip install cliquet-fxa

Include the package in the project configuration:

pyramid.includes = cliquet_fxa

And configure authentication policy using pyramid_multiauth formalism:

multiauth.policies = fxa

By default, it will rely on the cache configured in Cliquet.

Configuration

Fill those settings with the values obtained during the application registration:

fxa-oauth.client_id = 89513028159972bc
fxa-oauth.client_secret = 9aced230585cc0aaea0a3467dd800
fxa-oauth.oauth_uri = https://oauth-stable.dev.lcip.org
fxa-oauth.scope = profile
fxa-oauth.webapp.authorized_domains = *.firefox.com
# fxa-oauth.cache_ttl_seconds = 300
# fxa-oauth.state.ttl_seconds = 3600

In case the application shall not behave as a relier (a.k.a. OAuth dance endpoints disabled):

fxa-oauth.relier.enabled = false

If necessary, override default values for authentication policy:

# multiauth.policy.fxa.realm = Realm
# multiauth.policy.fxa.use = cliquet_fxa.authentication.FxAOAuthAuthenticationPolicy

Login flow

OAuth Bearer token

Use the OAuth token with this header:

Authorization: Bearer <oauth_token>

notes:

If the token is not valid, this will result in a 401 error response.

Obtain token using Web UI

• Navigate the client to GET /v1/fxa-oauth/login?redirect=http://app-endpoint/#. There, a session cookie will be set, and the client will be redirected to a login form on the FxA content server;

• After submitting the credentials on the login page, the client will be redirected to http://app-endpoint/#{token} (the web-app).

Obtain token custom flow

The GET /v1/fxa-oauth/params endpoint can be use to get the configuration in order to trade the Firefox Accounts BrowserID with a Bearer Token. See Firefox Account documentation about this behavior

$ http GET http://localhost:8000/v0/fxa-oauth/params -v

GET /v0/fxa-oauth/params HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: localhost:8000
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.8.0


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 103
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:28:37 GMT
Server: waitress

{
    "client_id": "89513028159972bc",
    "oauth_uri": "https://oauth-stable.dev.lcip.org",
    "scope": "profile"
}

Changelog

This document describes changes between each past release.

1.2.0 (2015-06-24)

• Add default settings to define a policy “fxa”. It is now possible to just include cliquet_fxa and add fxa to multiauth.policies setting list.

• Do not check presence of cliquet cache in initialization phase.

• Do not use Cliquet logger to prevent initialization errors.

1.1.0 (2015-06-18)

• Do not prefix authenticated user with fxa_ anymore (#5)

1.0.0 (2015-06-09)

• Imported code from Cliquet

Contributors

• Alexis Metaireau <[e-mail]>

• Mathieu Leplatre <[e-mail]>

• Nicolas Perriault <[e-mail]>

• Rémy Hubscher <[e-mail]>

• Tarek Ziade <[e-mail]>