React App url parameter with S3 and CloudFront - reactjs

My apologies if the information that I have provided is vague as I am not so experience with AWS and React.
I have a React Application being deployed on S3 and CloudFront as per what is suggested in the following link.
Use S3 and CloudFront to host Static Single Page Apps (SPAs) with HTTPs and www-redirects
So most of the things are working fine. I have 403 and 404 errors being redirected to index.html. However the issue comes in where I have query parameters in my url. eg. https://example.com/example?sample=123 when I enter the url in my browser the query string gets removed from the url. The end result I got is https://example.com/example I have read some articles about forwarding query parameters but it's not working for me.
AWS Documentation - Query String Parameters
Hope I will be able to get some advise here. Thanks in advance.

The example?sample=123 is redirected to example because S3 sees example?sample=123 as path (a folder named example?sample=123), it will throw 404 as there is no such folder.
As you have mentioned, you have configured 404 -> index.html, the browser then goes back to example, which is very likely the default page of your react app.
Overall it looks like your query string is being cleared, actually it is lost during the redirection.
The solution includes three parts:
React
You can follow these two great tutorials, one for NextJs and another for RCA.
The way it works is to detect #! in the path, keep and store the query string after redirection.
S3
As included in the two links above, you have to set the redirection rule of the S3 Bucket, to add a #!/ prefix before the path on 403 or 404, it helps React to determine which parts of the url include query string. You can configure it in Properties -> Static website hosting -> Redirection rules – optional. You need to also set index.html as the Index document and enable static web hosting with the correct permission configured.
CloudFront
In General, set Default Root Object to index.html, make sure you don't make it as /index.html.
In Origin, set Origin domain to the S3 Static Web Hosting URL (http://[bucket-name].s3-website.[region].amazonaws.com, do not choose the bucket itself.
In Behavior, change Viewer to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS, set Origin request policy - optional to AllViewer to let all query strings go through.
Hope it helps.

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GMAIL API ACCESS ISSUE [duplicate]

On the website https://code.google.com/apis/console I have registered my application, set up generated Client ID: and Client Secret to my app and tried to log in with Google.
Unfortunately, I got the error message:
Error: redirect_uri_mismatch
The redirect URI in the request: http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/google_oauth2/callback did not match a registered redirect URI
scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email
response_type=code
redirect_uri=http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/google_oauth2/callback
access_type=offline
approval_prompt=force
client_id=generated_id
What does mean this message, and how can I fix it?
I use the gem omniauth-google-oauth2.
The redirect URI (where the response is returned to) has to be registered in the APIs console, and the error is indicating that you haven't done that, or haven't done it correctly.
Go to the console for your project and look under API Access. You should see your client ID & client secret there, along with a list of redirect URIs. If the URI you want isn't listed, click edit settings and add the URI to the list.
EDIT: (From a highly rated comment below) Note that updating the google api console and that change being present can take some time. Generally only a few minutes but sometimes it seems longer.
In my case it was www and non-www URL. Actual site had www URL and the Authorized Redirect URIs in Google Developer Console had non-www URL. Hence, there was mismatch in redirect URI. I solved it by updating Authorized Redirect URIs in Google Developer Console to www URL.
Other common URI mismatch are:
Using http:// in Authorized Redirect URIs and https:// as actual URL, or vice-versa
Using trailing slash (http://example.com/) in Authorized Redirect URIs and not using trailing slash (http://example.com) as actual URL, or vice-versa
Here are the step-by-step screenshots of Google Developer Console so that it would be helpful for those who are getting it difficult to locate the developer console page to update redirect URIs.
Go to https://console.developers.google.com
Select your Project
Click on the menu icon
Click on API Manager menu
Click on Credentials menu. And under OAuth 2.0 Client IDs, you will find your client name. In my case, it is Web Client 1. Click on it and a popup will appear where you can edit Authorized Javascript Origin and Authorized redirect URIs.
Note: The Authorized URI includes all localhost links by default, and any live version needs to include the full path, not just the domain, e.g. https://example.com/path/to/oauth/url
Here is a Google article on creating project and client ID.
If you're using Google+ javascript button, then you have to use postmessage instead of the actual URI. It took me almost the whole day to figure this out since Google's docs do not clearly state it for some reason.
In any flow where you retrieved an authorization code on the client side, such as the GoogleAuth.grantOfflineAccess() API, and now you want to pass the code to your server, redeem it, and store the access and refresh tokens, then you have to use the literal string postmessage instead of the redirect_uri.
For example, building on the snippet in the Ruby doc:
client_secrets = Google::APIClient::ClientSecrets.load('client_secrets.json')
auth_client = client_secrets.to_authorization
auth_client.update!(
:scope => 'profile https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly',
:redirect_uri => 'postmessage' # <---- HERE
)
# Inject user's auth_code here:
auth_client.code = "4/lRCuOXzLMIzqrG4XU9RmWw8k1n3jvUgsI790Hk1s3FI"
tokens = auth_client.fetch_access_token!
# { "access_token"=>..., "expires_in"=>3587, "id_token"=>..., "refresh_token"=>..., "token_type"=>"Bearer"}
The only Google documentation to even mention postmessage is this old Google+ sign-in doc. Here's a screenshot and archive link since G+ is closing and this link will likely go away:
It is absolutely unforgivable that the doc page for Offline Access doesn't mention this. #FacePalm
For my web application i corrected my mistake by writing
instead of : http://localhost:11472/authorize/
type : http://localhost/authorize/
Make sure to check the protocol "http://" or "https://" as google checks protocol as well.
Better to add both URL in the list.
1.you would see an error like this
2.then you should click on request details
after this , you have to copy that url and add this on https://console.cloud.google.com/
go to https://console.cloud.google.com/
click on Menu -> API & Services -> Credentials
you would see a dashboard like this ,click on edit OAuth Client
now in Authorized Javascript Origins and Authorized redirect URLS
add the url that has shown error called redirect_uri_mismatch i.e here it is
http://algorithammer.herokuapp.com , so i have added that in both the places in
Authorized Javascript Origins and Authorized redirect URLS
click on save and wait for 5 min and then try to login again
This seems quite strange and annoying that no "one" solution is there.
for me http://localhost:8000 did not worked out but http://localhost:8000/ worked out.
This answer is same as this Mike's answer, and Jeff's answer, both sets redirect_uri to postmessage on client side. I want to add more about the server side, and also the special circumstance applying to this configuration.
Tech Stack
Backend
Python 3.6
Django 1.11
Django REST Framework 3.9: server as API, not rendering template, not doing much elsewhere.
Django REST Framework JWT 1.11
Django REST Social Auth < 2.1
Frontend
React: 16.8.3, create-react-app version 2.1.5
react-google-login: 5.0.2
The "Code" Flow (Specifically for Google OAuth2)
Summary: React --> request social auth "code" --> request jwt token to acquire "login" status in terms of your own backend server/database.
Frontend (React) uses a "Google sign in button" with responseType="code" to get an authorization code. (it's not token, not access token!)
The google sign in button is from react-google-login mentioned above.
Click on the button will bring up a popup window for user to select account. After user select one and the window closes, you'll get the code from the button's callback function.
Frontend send this to backend server's JWT endpoint.
POST request, with { "provider": "google-oauth2", "code": "your retrieved code here", "redirect_uri": "postmessage" }
For my Django server I use Django REST Framework JWT + Django REST Social Auth. Django receives the code from frontend, verify it with Google's service (done for you). Once verified, it'll send the JWT (the token) back to frontend. Frontend can now harvest the token and store it somewhere.
All of REST_SOCIAL_OAUTH_ABSOLUTE_REDIRECT_URI, REST_SOCIAL_DOMAIN_FROM_ORIGIN and REST_SOCIAL_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI in Django's settings.py are unnecessary. (They are constants used by Django REST Social Auth) In short, you don't have to setup anything related to redirect url in Django. The "redirect_uri": "postmessage" in React frontend suffice. This makes sense because the social auth work you have to do on your side is all Ajax-style POST request in frontend, not submitting any form whatsoever, so actually no redirection occur by default. That's why the redirect url becomes useless if you're using the code + JWT flow, and the server-side redirect url setting is not taking any effect.
The Django REST Social Auth handles account creation. This means it'll check the google account email/last first name, and see if it match any account in database. If not, it'll create one for you, using the exact email & first last name. But, the username will be something like youremailprefix717e248c5b924d60 if your email is youremailprefix#example.com. It appends some random string to make a unique username. This is the default behavior, I believe you can customize it and feel free to dig into their documentation.
The frontend stores that token and when it has to perform CRUD to the backend server, especially create/delete/update, if you attach the token in your Authorization header and send request to backend, Django backend will now recognize that as a login, i.e. authenticated user. Of course, if your token expire, you have to refresh it by making another request.
Oh my goodness, I've spent more than 6 hours and finally got this right! I believe this is the 1st time I saw this postmessage thing. Anyone working on a Django + DRF + JWT + Social Auth + React combination will definitely crash into this. I can't believe none of the article out there mentions this except answers here. But I really hope this post can save you tons of time if you're using the Django + React stack.
In my case, my credential Application type is "Other". So I can't find Authorized redirect URIs in the credentials page. It seems appears in Application type:"Web application". But you can click the Download JSON button to get the client_secret.json file.
Open the json file, and you can find the parameter like this: "redirect_uris":["urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob","http://localhost"]. I choose to use http://localhost and it works fine for me.
When you register your app at https://code.google.com/apis/console and
make a Client ID, you get a chance to specify one or more redirect
URIs. The value of the redirect_uri parameter on your auth URI has to
match one of them exactly.
Checklist:
http or https?
& or &?
trailing slash(/) or open ?
(CMD/CTRL)+F, search for the exact match in the credential page. If
not found then search for the missing one.
Wait until google refreshes it. May happen in each half an hour if you
are changing frequently or it may stay in the pool. For my case it was almost half an hour to take effect.
for me it was because in the 'Authorized redirect URIs' list I've incorrectly put https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/ instead of https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground (without / at the end).
The redirect url is case sensitive.
In my case I added both:
http://localhost:5023/AuthCallback/IndexAsync
http://localhost:5023/authcallback/indexasync
If you use this tutorial: https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/server-side-flow then you should use "postmessage".
In GO this fixed the problem:
confg = &oauth2.Config{
RedirectURL: "postmessage",
ClientID: ...,
ClientSecret: ...,
Scopes: ...,
Endpoint: google.Endpoint,
}
beware of the extra / at the end of the url
http://localhost:8000 is different from http://localhost:8000/
It has been answered thoroughly but recently (like, a month ago) Google stopped accepting my URI and it would not worked. I know for a fact it did before because there is a user registered with it.
Anyways, the problem was the regular 400: redirect_uri_mismatch but the only difference was that it was changing from https:// to http://, and Google will not allow you to register http:// redirect URI as they are production publishing status (as opposed to localhost).
The problem was in my callback (I use Passport for auth) and I only did
callbackURL: "/register/google/redirect"
Read docs and they used a full URL, so I changed it to
callbackURL: "https://" + process.env.MY_URL+ "/register/google/redirect"
Added https localhost to my accepted URI so I could test locally, and it started working again.
TL;DR use the full URL so you know where you're redirecting
2015 July 15 - the signin that was working last week with this script on login
<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js" async defer></script>
stopped working and started causing Error 400 with Error: redirect_uri_mismatch
and in the DETAILS section: redirect_uri=storagerelay://...
i solved it by changing to:
<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/client:platform.js?onload=startApp"></script>
Rails users (from the omniauth-google-oauth2 docs):
Fixing Protocol Mismatch for redirect_uri in Rails
Just set the full_host in OmniAuth based on the Rails.env.
# config/initializers/omniauth.rb
OmniAuth.config.full_host = Rails.env.production? ? 'https://domain.com' : 'http://localhost:3000'
REMEMBER: Do not include the trailing "/"
None of the above solutions worked for me. below did
change authorised Redirect urls to - https://localhost:44377/signin-google
Hope this helps someone.
My problem was that I had http://localhost:3000/ in the address bar and had http://127.0.0.1:3000/ in the console.developers.google.com
Just make sure that you are entering URL and not just a domain.
So instead of:
domain.com
it should be
domain.com/somePathWhereYouHadleYourRedirect
Anyone struggling to find where to set redirect urls in the new console: APIs & Auth -> Credentials -> OAuth 2.0 client IDs -> Click the link to find all your redirect urls
My two cents:
If using the Google_Client library do not forget to update the JSON file on your server after updating the redirect URI's.
I also get This error Error-400: redirect_uri_mismatch
This is not a server or Client side error but you have to only change by checking that you haven't to added / (forward slash) at the end like this
redirecting URL list ❌:
https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
Do this only ✅:
https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground
Let me complete #Bazyl's answer: in the message I received, they mentioned the URI
"http://localhost:8080/"
(which of course, seems an internal google configuration). I changed the authorized URI for that one,
"http://localhost:8080/" , and the message didn't appear anymore... And the video got uploaded... The APIS documentation is VERY lame... Every time I have something working with google apis, I simply feel "lucky", but there's a lack of good documentation about it.... :( Yes, I got it working, but I don't yet understand neither why it failed, nor why it worked... There was only ONE place to confirm the URI in the web, and it got copied in the client_secrets.json... I don't get if there's a THIRD place where one should write the same URI... I find nor only the documentation but also the GUI design of Google's api quite lame...
I needed to create a new client ID under APIs & Services -> Credentials -> Create credentials -> OAuth -> Other
Then I downloaded and used the client_secret.json with my command line program that is uploading to my youtube account. I was trying to use a Web App OAuth client ID which was giving me the redirect URI error in browser.
I have frontend app and backend api.
From my backend server I was testing by hitting google api and was facing this error. During my whole time I was wondering of why should I need to give redirect_uri as this is just the backend, for frontend it makes sense.
What I was doing was giving different redirect_uri (though valid) from server (assuming this is just placeholder, it just has only to be registered to google) but my frontend url that created token code was different. So when I was passing this code in my server side testing(for which redirect-uri was different), I was facing this error.
So don't do this mistake. Make sure your frontend redirect_uri is same as your server's as google use it to validate the authenticity.
The main reason for this issue will only come from chrome and chrome handles WWW and non www differently depending on how you entered your URL in the browsers and it searches from google and directly shows the results, so the redirection URL sent is different in a different case
Add all the possible combinations you can find the exact url sent from fiddler , the 400 error pop up will not give you the exact http and www infromation
Try to do these checks:
Bundle ID in console and in your application. I prefer set Bundle ID of application like this "org.peredovik.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}"
Check if you added URL types at tab Info just type your Bundle ID in Identifier and URL Schemes, role set to Editor
In console at cloud.google.com "APIs & auth" -> "Consent screen" fill form about your application. "Product name" is required field.
Enjoy :)

Redirecting all 404 requests to / in S3

I'm trying to setup S3 to host my static content. I've been following the documentation on AWS website. So far, I managed to see the web page loaded successfully by entering the endpoint of the bucket:
http://my-bucket.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
But since this is a single page application and routes are handled inside the web page (it's implemented using React), I need all the URLs pointing to non-existing pages to be redirected to /. So I configured the bucket's Redirection rules like this:
<RoutingRules>
<RoutingRule>
<Condition>
<HttpErrorCodeReturnedEquals>404</HttpErrorCodeReturnedEquals>
</Condition>
<Redirect>
<ReplaceKeyWith>/</ReplaceKeyWith>
</Redirect>
</RoutingRule>
</RoutingRules>
But the problem is that when I open the URL:
http://my-bucket.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/logon
I face 403 Forbidden. It seems to me that AWS is blocking the URL since it is not public but how can I make an object public when it does not exist?
It turned out what I was missing was granting the public access to listing the items in the bucket. But then I realized redirecting is not what I need. So I asked a new question here.

React app served from s3 results in 404 page from edge/IE

So I have a React/Redux application that is being served through Amazon s3 currently. We have configured s3 to render the index.html page on a 4xx error and serve our bundle.js. This allowed the react router to be bootstrapped and take over from there. Until recently this worked without issue. Now when I try to visit the page in IE or Edge I get the IE or Edge 404 page.
If I turn off the "Show friendly HTTP error messages" option on the IE browser everything works without issue. From the research I have done this is my theory on what is happening:
When the client hits the requested route the react router has not been bootstrapped yet. This results in the 404 that has to be rescued by rendering the /index.html page. When the 404 is returned IE/Edge steps in and renders their own 404 page which prevents the index.html from ever being rendered.
I am kind of at a loss as to how to solve this issue without actually using a full on backend. I can configure a redirect in the s3 settings to replace the root url with the index.html but this will break all of the sub-routes off of the main route. Is there a way to configure the application so that it works on all major browsers without actually implementing an actual backend?
EDIT: So I found this article which shows how this issue can be solved using cloudfront by rendering the index on a custom error: https://medium.com/#omgwtfmarc/deploying-create-react-app-to-s3-or-cloudfront-48dae4ce0af. Does anyone know if this is possible using cloud flare? I don't actually have the access to cloudflare personally so I am not sure of the possibilities.
If it works with "Show friendly HTTP error messages" disabled, then the issue can also be fixed by making your error pages longer. By default, IE will show those pages if it is less than 512 bytes.
OK so I discovered:
1) You cannot rescue this error in cloudflare.
2) You can put cloudfront in between S3 and cloudflare and simply implement a custom error rule.
3) Do not use the standard dropdown option when selecting the bucket for cloudfront. If you give the bucket name when configuring the error rule, cloudfront will treat it like a normal file not a static site and thus it fails to intercept the error. You have to use the fully qualified url for the bucket. I hope this saves someone some time. I lost some sleep over this issue.

What is the best way to manage server redirect obtained under Angular translate JSON loading?

We are using AWS cloudfront to store our translation locale JSON files. Our Angular application gets these files via StaticFilesLoader in angular translate module.
In most cases it works perfectly. However after an environment is freshly created AWS could responses redirect to other location to get translation files. It is normal cloudfront behavior. But StaticFilesLoader is not able to follow this redirect and crashes with error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://some.cloudfront.net/3...9-a...0-1..c-9...f/i18n/locale-en.json. Response for preflight is invalid (redirect)
Is there any known solution of this issue? Could you please give me some suggestion how to solve it?
A workaround could be to write interceptor to catch the redirect and fetch data with provided URL. But I decided to ask community before.

Is there any way to include special characters(#) as redirect uri in Googles API Manager(https://console.developers.google.com)

I'm a node js developer. I'm in a way of authenticating and authorizing Google and OpenOffice 365 using OAuth2. My projects' client side is angular js and I have a '#' in my url . But I can't given it as a redirect uri in my Google or open365 (https://apps.dev.microsoft.com/) app registration console. The appications' validation says the special character is not valid. Is there way of solving this issue like encoding or something. Any help would be grateful. I'm also attaching a screen shot of the above.
The redirect URL must be a true URL having a # in your url is called a "Fragment".
If you read the gray area.
"can not contain url fragments or relative paths can not be IP
address"
Answer: As stated in the note on the Google Developer console Redirect URIs can not contain Fragments (#). There is no work around for this.

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