I'm trying to implement a custom authentication provider in Symfony 2. I'm sending a test request using Fiddler and printing all headers server side; well, Authorization
header is missing.
Am i doing something wrong?
GET /RESTfulBackend/web/index.php HTTP/1.1
Authorization: FID 44CF9590006BF252F707:jZNOcbfWmD/
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Fiddler
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: it-it,it;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Listener just prints the headers and quits:
class HMACListener implements ListenerInterface
{
private $securityContext;
private $authenticationManager;
public function handle(GetResponseEvent $event)
{
$request = $event->getRequest();
print_r($request->headers->all());
die();
}
}
Response is missing Authorization
header:
Array
(
[host] => Array
(
[0] => localhost
)
[user-agent] => Array
(
[0] => Fiddler
)
[accept] => Array
(
[0] => text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml
)
[accept-language] => Array
(
[0] => it-it,it;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
)
)
You must add this code to your virtualhost
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
RewriteRule .* - [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]
Work in Virtualhost tag, not in Directory tag.
Akambi's answer didn't work for me, but found this answer in the php website:
"Workaround for missing Authorization header under CGI/FastCGI Apache:
SetEnvIf Authorization .+ HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$0
Now PHP should automatically declare $_SERVER[PHP_AUTH_*] variables if the client sends the Authorization header."
Thanks derkontrollfreak+9hy5l!
The verified solution worked for me at the time to get the Authorization header through. However, it generated an empty Authorization header when there was none in the incoming request. This is how I solved it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .+
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
I had the same problem when writing a public API with custom Authorization
header. To fix the HeaderBag
I used a listener:
namespace My\Project\Frontend\EventListener;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\HeaderBag;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseEvent;
/**
* Listener for the REQUEST event. Patches the HeaderBag because the
* "Authorization" header is not included in $_SERVER
*/
class AuthenticationHeaderListener
{
/**
* Handles REQUEST event
*
* @param GetResponseEvent $event the event
*/
public function onKernelRequest(GetResponseEvent $event)
{
$this->fixAuthHeader($event->getRequest()->headers);
}
/**
* PHP does not include HTTP_AUTHORIZATION in the $_SERVER array, so this header is missing.
* We retrieve it from apache_request_headers()
*
* @param HeaderBag $headers
*/
protected function fixAuthHeader(HeaderBag $headers)
{
if (!$headers->has('Authorization') && function_exists('apache_request_headers')) {
$all = apache_request_headers();
if (isset($all['Authorization'])) {
$headers->set('Authorization', $all['Authorization']);
}
}
}
}
and bound it to kernel.request
in the service definition:
services:
fix_authentication_header_listener:
class: My\Project\Frontend\EventListener\AuthenticationHeaderListener
tags:
- { name: kernel.event_listener, event: kernel.request, method: onKernelRequest, priority: 255 }
Authorization header is used for http basic authentication which is discarded by apache if not in valid format. Try using another name.
Another option that worked for Apache 2.4 when other options did not was to set the CGIPassAuth
option in the relevant <Directory>
context, like this:
CGIPassAuth On
According to the documentation, it is available since Apache 2.4.13.
Another solution is to change your PHP
handler to run PHP as Apache Module
instead of as CGI application
.
We should authorise this header "Authorization" on the server side,
it's also simply done with nelmioCorsBundle
nelmio_cors:
defaults:
allow_credentials: false
allow_origin: []
allow_headers: []
allow_methods: []
expose_headers: []
max_age: 0
hosts: []
origin_regex: false
forced_allow_origin_value: ~
paths:
'^/api/':
allow_origin: ['*']
allow_headers: ['Authorization']