Introduction
I have a hyperledger env running in secure mode by following this link https://hyperledger.github.io/composer/integrating/enabling-rest-authentication.html
and it works fine if I authenticate as specified in the document (hitting http://mydomain:3000/auth/github
directly from the browser) and then access the Rest API from the http://mydomain:3000/explorer
and could authorize as various participants (i.e, issuing identity and adding them to the wallet and setting one as default at a time) and could see the assets as per the .acl file.
Issue
But I started facing problems when I started integrating the Rest API's from my web application rather directly from the browser. As a first step from my web app, I called the http://mydomain:3000/auth/github
to authenticate and then started calling the other APIs (transaction/list, etc.) but I do always get
Error 401: 'Authorization Required'
What i have tried
Gave my web application URL as the 'Redirect URL' in the env variable for the hyperledger. And upon successful authentication (calling http://mydomain:3000/auth/github
) it successfully redirected to my webapp home page but afterwards accessing the Rest API's (from web app) again throws 'Authorization Required' error.
Environment variaable as below:
export COMPOSER_PROVIDERS='{
"github": {
"provider": "github",
"module": "passport-github",
"clientID": "CLIENT_ID",
"clientSecret": "CLIENT_SECRET",
"authPath": "/auth/github",
"callbackURL": "/auth/github/callback",
"successRedirect": "http://localhost:8080/home.html",
"failureRedirect": "/"
}
}'
Incorporated passport-github2
mechanism in my web application (i.e, registered my app with the oauth of github) and upon successful login to my web application; called the http://mydomain:3000/auth/github
to authenticate to the blockchain and it did not work out as well.
I have a few questions:
- Is it feasible to call the secured hyperledger Rest API's from another web application?
- If Yes, how to do it? I don't find that information in the hyperledger composer documentation.
Have been trying this for a week now and have no answers. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if anything is unclear. Thanks.
I commented about this problem on one of the existing hyperledger github issues(below link) & I want to share the solution that solved this problem for me. https://github.com/hyperledger/composer/issues/142
Solution: as mentioned by user
sstone1
via Angular:
via JQuery AJAX: