I am using token authentication for small project based on this article: http://bitoftech.net/2014/06/09/angularjs-token-authentication-using-asp-net-web-api-2-owin-asp-net-identity/
Everything seems to work fine except one thing: OWIN based token authentication doesn't allow OPTIONS request on /token endpoint. Web API returns 400 Bad Request and whole browser app stops sending POST request to obtain token.
I have all CORS enabled in application as in sample project. Below some code that might be relevant:
public class Startup
{
public static OAuthBearerAuthenticationOptions OAuthBearerOptions { get; private set; }
public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
{
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
UnityConfig.RegisterComponents();
GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register);
FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
HttpConfiguration config = new HttpConfiguration();
app.UseCors(Microsoft.Owin.Cors.CorsOptions.AllowAll);
ConfigureOAuth(app);
WebApiConfig.Register(config);
app.UseWebApi(config);
Database.SetInitializer(new ApplicationContext.Initializer());
}
public void ConfigureOAuth(IAppBuilder app)
{
//use a cookie to temporarily store information about a user logging in with a third party login provider
app.UseExternalSignInCookie(Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ExternalCookie);
OAuthBearerOptions = new OAuthBearerAuthenticationOptions();
OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions OAuthServerOptions = new OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions()
{
AllowInsecureHttp = true,
TokenEndpointPath = new PathString("/token"),
AccessTokenExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(60),
Provider = new SimpleAuthorizationServerProvider(),
RefreshTokenProvider = new SimpleRefreshTokenProvider()
};
// Token Generation
app.UseOAuthAuthorizationServer(OAuthServerOptions);
app.UseOAuthBearerAuthentication(OAuthBearerOptions);
}
}
Below is my login function from javascript (I am using angularjs for that purpose)
var _login = function (loginData) {
var data = "grant_type=password&username=" + loginData.userName + "&password=" + loginData.password;
data = data + "&client_id=" + ngAuthSettings.clientId;
var deferred = $q.defer();
$http.post(serviceBase + 'token', data, { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' } }).success(function (response) {
localStorageService.set('authorizationData', { token: response.access_token, userName: loginData.userName, refreshToken: response.refresh_token, useRefreshTokens: true });
_authentication.isAuth = true;
_authentication.userName = loginData.userName;
_authentication.useRefreshTokens = loginData.useRefreshTokens;
deferred.resolve(response);
}).error(function (err, status) {
_logOut();
deferred.reject(err);
});
return deferred.promise;
};
var _logOut = function () {
localStorageService.remove('authorizationData');
_authentication.isAuth = false;
_authentication.userName = "";
_authentication.useRefreshTokens = false;
};