I started with an API inside Laravel with the JWT package, another Laravel frontend installation should be able to login to this Laravel API, but im not really sure how to handle this the right way.
My setup is like this:
Laravel API -> receives POST login -> returns a token and a user model -> Laravel frontend receives this data
But then what? How would I 'auth' the right way inside the Laravel frontend part?
Just set my own sessions and check that way? Any suggestions would be nice! :)
First you authenticate with the Laravel API, performing the POST request as you mentioned. This should provide you your JWT or access_token, along with a refresh token.
You then append this token to your requests in the Authorization header.
So the key is Authorization and the value will be Bearer <access_token>.
Finally your routes must have the correct middleware to require a valid token, for example the auth middleware.
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Previously I generated the auth token based on the user credentials and it was worked fine.
I need to generate the token for guest users in which I did not have the credentials.
So I followed token generation using custom claims in JWT. Using this link I implemented.
When I try to access the apis using the custom claims token I am getting 401 unauthorized error.
I am using the previous auth system in which token is generated using the user credentials and also I need the custom claims token also to work.
Any help would be appreciated.
Check the guard on the middleware that control your route or the resource you are trying to access.
I'm fairly new to Laravel and I have to connect to an API service, first authenticate, get the token and then use that token to make other API calls.
I understand that I can use the HTTP client to do the initial authentication and get the token. Now I've got the token, how do I store it? Does it goes into the database or I store it in session and then how do I use that in my other API calls?
Any help is appreciated.
I am creating a new rest API using Laravel 5.6. For API authorization, I have implemented Passport and it is working fine.
However, I want a system where anyone who wants to access any route of my API including register and login that requires token.
I am thinking in this way but not so sure how I can implement in Laravel.
I will issue one static token and will store into database.
I will encrypt that token and will provide to the client in my case
mobile app.
Mobile side the token I will store into shared preference so no one
will have direct access.
When mobile send a request to access any route of API, it has to pass the token in the header with the custom key
API will decrypt the token and match with the database one.
If it matches that will allow accessing the API.
Then later I may use the Passport token to add additional layer or security.
My question is,
How to implement this system in Laravel so I don't have to write code
for every request and all request pass through this validation?
So i am currently developing a web app that will use laravel api for future mobile use and laravel passport. My passport is set up to where i used postman to login, register, and delete an account, the usual functions. The laravel API also works independently as can make the requests from my routes.
Using Passport, i log in, and it returns a token, in which if i am correct, is the token that will be used for the API. Now upon creating the api, which will be accepting the forms/parameter to the main function for my app, How do i use the token i received from Passport with the API?
In the request to the API do i need to ask for the user's token and if so how to check that its a token that can be used from my application. It's this middle part of connecting them i cannot understand, as I can make the passport work by itself, and the laravel api by itself that im just sending the posts/get from postman and getting my json responses that ill use later for my js frontend.
In config/auth.php replace api -> driver to password, and consequently you can use the same Auth::user() method to login through Password API tokens. Don't forget to pass the token as Authorization header from front-end side wi the key Bearer.
You just need to install passport and then you will get client secret key.
Then you need call API using passport default route like http://192.000.0.000:8000/oauth/token with some parameters like:
client_id = 1,
client_secret = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
grant_type = client_credentials
username = hanna.stracke#example.org
password = secret
scope = *
Then hit the URL then you will get "access_token". using access_token you will login the user.
Thanks,
I am developing a web application in Laravel. Now I'm in the process of creating an android app. I need to create a web service (back end) in Laravel, but I don't know how to manage the sessions (auth) in the request.
My idea is to create a unique token for every session, and store it in a database. So, every request need the token be included, and my backend will check if the token is valid or not.
How can I modify the login functionality that comes with Laravel 5.0 to create an return the token?
I read the documentation and some articles in the internet, but it is still not clear to me.
You can create a token during registration of the app which should correspond with the user id. This token will be used together with the user id anytime you call any of your api's to authenticate the user.
You can create a filter named custom_authentication and check for the token validity inside that filter. Now just apply this filter before every routes, which you want to be authenticated.
Using only simple authentication token is not very secure, you need to go with HTTPS always.
If you want to make the API secure with HTTP, you might have to implement OAuth with the help of packages like this.