I have a .NET Core 3.1 Api application with the following configuration of HttpClient. In Startup.cs
services.AddAuthentication(IISDefaults.AuthenticationScheme);
services.AddHttpClient("myapi", c =>
{
c.BaseAddress = new Uri(Configuration["endpoint"]);
c.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization =
new AuthenticationHeaderValue(
IISDefaults.AuthenticationScheme, Convert.ToBase64String(
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"{Configuration["username"]}:{Configuration["password"]}")));
});
I then try to make an HTTP call like this:
var client = clientFactory.CreateClient(clientName);
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(url);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
return await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
however I always get an Unauthorized response when calling an internal api. Under Debug I have Windows authentication and Anonymous authentication both enabled.
With Postman my api calls go through, which verifies that I got the right credentials.
Can you suggest any alterations to make this work?
Instead of c.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization =, I'm having config like this
c.ConfigurePrimaryHttpMessageHandler(() => new HttpClientHandler
{
Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password"),
AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate,
PreAuthenticate = true
});
I guess this will not work as-is in your case, but I hope this can get you on track.
After hours of searching the internet I decided to ask you guys for a little help.
I've written an Web API with couple of simple get/post methods. I'm using Individual user accounts authentication method.
Using the HttpClient I've managed to successfully call every AUTHORIZED get and post method as well as the /token endpoint used for generating authorization token.
The problem is that I must call these methods inside .NET Framework 3.5 project. So I've tried using WebClient to do this because I read that the HttpClient is not supported in .NET Framework 3.5.
GetAPIToken() METHOD generates Bearer token and it works.
private static string GetAPIToken(string userName, string password, string apiBaseUri)
{
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
client.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
var response = client.UploadString(apiBaseUri + "/Token", "POST", "grant_type=password&username=" + userName + "&password=" + password);
var jObject = JObject.Parse(response);
return jObject.GetValue("access_token").ToString();
}
}
This GET method works when I remove [Authorize] attribute from the Web API but I can't make it work when authorized.
//GET ODRAĐENI POSTUPCI
private static string GetOdradjeniPostupci(int Id, string token)
{
string apiBaseUri = "http://localhost:60511/";
string serviceUrl = apiBaseUri + "api/ZOdradjeniPostupci";
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
client.Headers.Clear();
client.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json");
client.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + token);
var response = client.DownloadString(serviceUrl + "/GetZOdradjeniPostupci?cZdrUst=" + Id.ToString());
return response;
}
}
I get error 401 unathorized no matter what I try. (Different combinations from the internet regarding Authorization header).
Hope you could give me any advice on how to solve this.
I would appreciate it a lot.
Thanks.
I am trying to authenticate RESTful service (sabre REST api) using RESTsharp library but i am not able to authenticate it. I am using my Client id and secret. Please tell me how to authenticate using oAuth 2.0 authenticator.
I have tried this code. ( sabre is using OAuth 2.0 authentication )
public ActionResult Index()
{
var client = new RestClient("https://api.test.sabre.com");
client.Authenticator = new HttpBasicAuthenticator("myclientid", "myclientsecret");
RestRequest request = new RestRequest("/v1/auth/token", Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + client);
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
request.AddParameter("grant_type", "client_credentials");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
var content = response.Content;
ViewBag.R = content;
return View();
}
i got this result
{"error":"invalid_client","error_description":"Credentials are missing or the syntax is not correct"}
please tell what i am doing wrong.
Thanks
Snapshot of Fiddler Comparison of Running code (not with RestSharp) and code using RestSharp is shown
With RestSharp
Seems to me like you are adding the Authorization header twice. The documentation here says
The authenticator’s Authenticate method is the very first thing called
upon calling RestClient.Execute
Looking at the implementation of HttpBasicAuthenticator, the Authenticate method adds the appropriate header to the request.
So remove the following line from your example:
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + client);
You need to first obtain access token from Sabre that you can later use while making rest api calls.
The access token POST request looks like this:
POST https://api.test.sabre.com/v2/auth/token
Authorization: Basic ZVc5MWNtTnNhV1Z1ZEdsazplVzkxY21Oc2FXVnVkSE5sWTNKbGRBPT0=
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
grant_type=client_credentials
where the value of Authorization after Basic is the Base64 encoded string based on your clientId and secret
Refer to Sabre Authentication on how this string is created
So, in order to get the access token you just need to send a POST request with required header and request parameters and you do not need to use the Authenticator
I want to use the Jenkins Remote API, and I am looking for safe solution. I came across Prevent Cross Site Request Forgery exploits and I want to use it, but I read somewhere that you have to make a crumb request.
How do I get a crumb request in order to get the API working?
I found this https://github.com/entagen/jenkins-build-per-branch/pull/20, but still I don't know how to fix it.
My Jenkins version is 1.50.x.
Authenticated remote API request responds with 403 when using POST request
I haven't found this in the documentation either. This code is tested against an older Jenkins (1.466), but should still work.
To issue the crumb use the crumbIssuer
// left out: you need to authenticate with user & password -> sample below
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(jenkinsUrl + "crumbIssuer/api/json");
String crumbResponse = toString(httpclient, httpGet);
CrumbJson crumbJson = new Gson().fromJson(crumbResponse, CrumbJson.class);
This will get you a response like this
{"crumb":"fb171d526b9cc9e25afe80b356e12cb7","crumbRequestField":".crumb"}
This contains two pieces of information you need
the field name with which you need to pass the crumb
the crumb itself
If you now want to fetch something from Jenkins, add the crumb as header. In the sample below I fetch the latest build results.
HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost(jenkinsUrl + "rssLatest");
httpost.addHeader(crumbJson.crumbRequestField, crumbJson.crumb);
Here is the sample code as a whole. I am using gson 2.2.4 to parse the response and Apache's httpclient 4.2.3 for the rest.
import org.apache.http.auth.*;
import org.apache.http.client.*;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.*;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.*;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
public class JenkinsMonitor {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String protocol = "http";
String host = "your-jenkins-host.com";
int port = 8080;
String usernName = "username";
String password = "passwort";
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
new AuthScope(host, port),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(usernName, password));
String jenkinsUrl = protocol + "://" + host + ":" + port + "/jenkins/";
try {
// get the crumb from Jenkins
// do this only once per HTTP session
// keep the crumb for every coming request
System.out.println("... issue crumb");
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(jenkinsUrl + "crumbIssuer/api/json");
String crumbResponse= toString(httpclient, httpGet);
CrumbJson crumbJson = new Gson()
.fromJson(crumbResponse, CrumbJson.class);
// add the issued crumb to each request header
// the header field name is also contained in the json response
System.out.println("... issue rss of latest builds");
HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost(jenkinsUrl + "rssLatest");
httpost.addHeader(crumbJson.crumbRequestField, crumbJson.crumb);
toString(httpclient, httpost);
} finally {
httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}
}
// helper construct to deserialize crumb json into
public static class CrumbJson {
public String crumb;
public String crumbRequestField;
}
private static String toString(DefaultHttpClient client,
HttpRequestBase request) throws Exception {
ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
String responseBody = client.execute(request, responseHandler);
System.out.println(responseBody + "\n");
return responseBody;
}
}
Or you can use Python and requests instead
req = requests.get('http://JENKINS_URL/crumbIssuer/api/xml?xpath=concat(//crumbRequestField,":",//crumb)', auth=(username, password))
print(req.text)
will give you the name and the crumb:
Jenkins-Crumb:e2e41f670dc128f378b2a010b4fcb493
This Python function gets the crumb, and additionally uses the crumb to post to a Jenkins endpoint. This is tested with Jenkins 2.46.3 with CSRF protection turned on:
import urllib.parse
import requests
def build_jenkins_job(url, username, password):
"""Post to the specified Jenkins URL.
`username` is a valid user, and `password` is the user's password or
(preferably) hex API token.
"""
# Build the Jenkins crumb issuer URL
parsed_url = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
crumb_issuer_url = urllib.parse.urlunparse((parsed_url.scheme,
parsed_url.netloc,
'crumbIssuer/api/json',
'', '', ''))
# Use the same session for all requests
session = requests.session()
# GET the Jenkins crumb
auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)
r = session.get(crumb_issuer_url, auth=auth)
json = r.json()
crumb = {json['crumbRequestField']: json['crumb']}
# POST to the specified URL
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
headers.update(crumb)
r = session.post(url, headers=headers, auth=auth)
username = 'jenkins'
password = '3905697dd052ad99661d9e9f01d4c045'
url = 'http://jenkins.example.com/job/sample/build'
build_jenkins_job(url, username, password)
Meanwhile you can generate an API token in order to prevent having to include your password in the source code provided by the solutions above:
https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Authenticating+scripted+clients
Refer - https://support.cloudbees.com/hc/en-us/articles/219257077-CSRF-Protection-Explained
If you authenticate with a username and a user API token then a crumb is not needed from Jenkins 2.96 weekly/2.107 LTS. For more information please refer to CSRF crumb no longer required when authenticating using API token or JENKINS-22474.
User cheffe's answer helped 90%. Thanks for giving us the right direction.
The missing 10% revolved around HTTP username and password authentication.
Since the Codenameone Java API I was using did not have the Authentication Class,
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(usernName, password));
I used:
String apiKey = "yourJenkinsUsername:yourJenkinsPassword";
httpConnection.addRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + Base64.encode(apiKey.getBytes()));
User cheffe's Java snippet worked great for me on Jenkins v2.89.3 (Eclipse.org) and another Jenkins instance I use, at v2.60.3 (once enabled1).
I've added this to a Maven mojo2 I use for pushing locally-edited config.xml changes back to the server.
1 CSRF Protection
2 Hudson job sync plugin
In any of these answers I didn't find an option to use Jenkins API token.
I really tried all of these options but if you're enabling CSRF protection, you should access Jenkins APIs with Jenkins API token instead of normal password.
This token can be generated by each individual user in the user config page.
The token can be used as follows-
JenkinsApi::Client.new(server_url: jenkins_url, username: jenkins_user, password: jenkins_token)
P.S. - This initialization is for a Ruby Jenkins API client
Can anyone point me to a suitable WCF Extension Point for hooking into the WCF Pipeline to extract credentials for UserNamePasswordValidator from the headers of an incoming HTTP REST Request?
Yes I know about all the funky stunts with Http Handlers etc. you can pull to somehow get Basic/Digest Auth working but since the client I'm working on will be strictly Javascript based I've opted for a simple model where the credentials are passed using two custom headers over an SSL pipe.
Update: I've managed to improve on this by using the approach described here. While this does not solves the problem described in my question, it gets rid of having to authenticate in a authorization policy since authentication is now handled by a custom AuthenticationManager, bypassing the UsernamePasswordValidator alltogether.
For the time being I've solved the problem by combining Authentication and Authorization in a custom Authorization Policy. I'd still rather find a way to hook into the normal UserNamePasswordValidator authentication scheme because an Authorization Policy is supposed to to Authorization not Authentication.
internal class RESTAuthorizationPolicy : IAuthorizationPolicy
{
public RESTAuthorizationPolicy()
{
Id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
Issuer = ClaimSet.System;
}
public bool Evaluate(EvaluationContext evaluationContext, ref object state)
{
const String HttpRequestKey = "httpRequest";
const String UsernameHeaderKey = "x-ms-credentials-username";
const String PasswordHeaderKey = "x-ms-credentials-password";
const String IdentitiesKey = "Identities";
const String PrincipalKey = "Principal";
// Check if the properties of the context has the identities list
if (evaluationContext.Properties.Count > 0 ||
evaluationContext.Properties.ContainsKey(IdentitiesKey) ||
!OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageProperties.ContainsKey(HttpRequestKey))
return false;
// get http request
var httpRequest = (HttpRequestMessageProperty)OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageProperties[HttpRequestKey];
// extract credentials
var username = httpRequest.Headers[UsernameHeaderKey];
var password = httpRequest.Headers[PasswordHeaderKey];
// verify credentials complete
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(username) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(password))
return false;
// Get or create the identities list
if (!evaluationContext.Properties.ContainsKey(IdentitiesKey))
evaluationContext.Properties[IdentitiesKey] = new List<IIdentity>();
var identities = (List<IIdentity>) evaluationContext.Properties[IdentitiesKey];
// lookup user
using (var con = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IDbConnection>())
{
using (var userDao = ServiceLocator.Current.GetDao<IUserDao>(con))
{
var user = userDao.GetUserByUsernamePassword(username, password);
...