vendredi 17 juin 2016

How to trust Frontend Facebook Login

Quick short background

I'm building a standalone web app using Angular JS 1.5. This web app makes usage of a API built with Laravel 5.2 (no sessions, just JWT Tokens and REST calls). Using Laravel-Socialite, I managed to make the following structure. It works nice and all, but we kind of have a overload of redirects.

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The Button calls a /facebook route that invokes the Socialite magic box which leads to redirect to the Facebook Page for authorization.

After I achieved this, I noticed that a Facebook Login LOOKS a lot more of a front-end task than a back-end one. It's just about helping the user quickly sign up using Facebok available data or sign in without a password.

The Problem

Socialite makes usage of my Facebook App Secret, not to mention that it's a known environment server operation, while a Front-end we may never trust. Here is what I managed to achieve using JavaScript SDK (with AngularJS).

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Now, technically I can use the response.email information that Facebook gave me and make a request to my API to make a login without a password. But can I really do it? How do I make sure the request is being made because Facebook authorized it? After Facebook replies to my Web App, what is a secure way to tell my server that it can issue a JWT Token to that email?

Conclusion

Do I make the three-step redirection (Web App → Server API → Facebook) to sign in / authenticate a user using Facebook or is there something I'm missing here that could be the key to transferring this responsibility to the front-end (and avoiding a 3-step-redirection)?



via Chebli Mohamed

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