I'm currently using Ocelot as Api Gateway for a micro-services architecture. I have some authenticated reroutes and to be able to use it I declared a authentication Middleware like this :
var authenticationProviderKey = "Authentification";
services.AddAuthentication(x =>
{
x.DefaultAuthenticateScheme = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
x.DefaultChallengeScheme = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
})
.AddJwtBearer(authenticationProviderKey, x =>
{
x.RequireHttpsMetadata = false;
x.TokenValidationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters
{
ValidateIssuerSigningKey = true,
IssuerSigningKey = new SymmetricSecurityKey(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(token.Secret)),
ValidIssuer = token.Issuer,
ValidAudience = token.Audience,
ValidateIssuer = true,
ValidateAudience = true
};
});
I wanted to run some custom validation to implement refresh token workflow, to do so I implemented the preAuthentication Middleware to make so tests :
PreAuthenticationMiddleware = async (ctx, next) =>
{
IEnumerable<string> header;
ctx.DownstreamRequest.Headers.TryGetValues("Authorization", out header);
if (header.FirstOrDefault() != null)
{
if (JwtUtils.ValidateExpirationToken(header.FirstOrDefault()))
{
//On validate refresh token
Console.WriteLine("PreAuthentification Middleware");
Tuple<int, string> credentials = JwtUtils.retrieveInfos(header.FirstOrDefault());
string token = JwtUtils.GenerateToken(credentials.Item1, credentials.Item2);
ctx.DownstreamRequest.Headers.Remove("Authorization");
ctx.DownstreamRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", token);
await next.Invoke();
}
}
}
From what I understood, when I make an api Call, the preAuthenticate Middleware would be called, and with next.Invoke() my Authentication middleware would be called. The newly generated token in my PreAuthentication middleware is a valid one, but my authentication middleware throws an expiredToken exception even tho he's not. Therefore I think the authentication Middleware is run against the first JWT when the new one has not been yet set to the Authorization Header. Is it the attended behaviour? Or maybe I did not understood correctly the middleware in Ocelot?
Anyway, some help would be much appreciated !
Have a good day,
Lio