Authenticated Angular JS apps - angularjs

I want to conver my existing site to angularJS application. Its flow is like this.
My parent web site is having link to sign up or login page.
As per user selection signup or login page should open.So once user login or created account he pointed to dashboard page.So how to do this angularJS?
Please note my parent web site is not in angular.
Thanks in advnce.

Here is a suggested design and here is a little project I wrote that has Angular code authenticating with a PHP server. The code has both the Register and Log in options you are looking for.
Use token based authentication (Im assuming your angular requests are JSON)
After the user logs in or registers, send a bearer token back to Angular via the URL. On the server side set an expiry date for the token
Every http request you make can include the token in the http header
The sample code has this implemented.

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Django Rest Framework / AngularJS - Users do not get redirected anywhere after logging in, even though I have set LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL in settings.py

According to this link: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions/#adding-login-to-the-browsable-api
I need to add the following code to my URLs.py:
url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls',
namespace='rest_framework')),
When I added this, users can log in by going to the "api-auth" URL and using the default DjangoRestFramework login interface. After a successful login, users are directed to "/test" because I have the following code in my settings.py:
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/test'
I wanted a way for users to be able to log-in using my own custom interface but by using DjangoRestFramework's built-in code for logging users in, so I created my own template. The login form in the template sends a post request to
api-auth/login/
and sends the user object (which consists of a username and password in JS) along with the POST request. No errors are returned, so I'm assuming the login is successful. However, it does not redirect to any URL (I was expecting it to redirect to "/test").
Any idea why it does not redirect anywhere, and how I can make it redirect to "/test"?
Edit: I am also using AngularJS on the frontend.
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL is basically from django.contrib.auth so I wouldn't except other auth backends to use it, at least not necessarily/automatically
Also if you're logging through REST say from an AngularJS, even if after the REST API login is successful and returns a redirect response, there is no guarantee that the AngularJS app will navigate to that page because the login REST API was hit using an XHR request (from $http or $resource etc)
I'm using a slightly different REST auth lib than you, called django-rest-auth (not the BrowsableAPI that comes with DRF), I'm authenticating from AngularJS, and after the call is done with success, I simply navigate the app to a new URL
djangoAuth.login(username, password).then(function(){
// make angularJS navigate to new page when login is successful
// $location.path(...) or some other way
});
Bottom line is, since you have an auth API, you can make a small AngularJS page, with login form, then when login is successful redirect with AngularJS
Worth a look
I'm using these two libs that are meant to be used together, they offer REST auth over DRF, and optional a AngularJS lib to help with the frontend
https://github.com/Tivix/django-rest-auth
https://github.com/Tivix/angular-django-registration-auth

Siteminder SSO + Spring Security + Angular JS

I have seen lot of examples where, there is a custom Login page with Angular JS, and then we make a rest POST call with the username/pwd, and then Spring authenticates based on whatever Auth Service we provide. Then we receive a success, grab the user object from Spring Security and then create a Session cookie in Angular.
https://github.com/witoldsz/angular-http-auth/blob/master/src/http-auth-interceptor.js
I also have seen, integrating Siteminder with Spring Security where we install a policy agent on the web server, and then grab request headers with Spring Security, and then pull the roles and build a user profile object.
I'm looking for a solution where I can combine both the above. This is the scenario :
When the user requests for index.html (Angular), the policy agent on the web server intercepts, authenticates with a Siteminder login page and then passes the headers to the app server. The Spring Security on app server will read the headers and pull the roles from our app database and then build a userprofile object. Now here, I want to continue the flow and display angular page, but Im trying to figure out, how do I send the user profile object to angular, because angular is not making a POST call at this point. Also, how do I get the http-auth-interceptor in play, because I need to keep checking if the user is still authenticated on the change of every view/state in Angular.
Help appreciated ! Thanks !
You may implement a tiny JSON REST service "/your-app/profile" which is protected by SiteMinder, reads and evaluates the headers and returns the result as a JSON object.
Your Angular App (e.g. /your-app/index.html) should better also be protected by SiteMinder so you receive an immediate redirect to the SSO Login when accessing it without session. In addition, it must read the JSON REST resource "/your-app/profile" when loaded. It must also expect that SMSESSION is missing when reading "/your-app/profile" and react accordingly - perform a reload of the protected index.html page to trigger a SM SSO re-login (if "/your-app/index.html" is protected, otherwise you must trigger login by a redirect to some protected resource).
If you want to constantly check to see if SiteMinder session is still present, you may either access the "/your-app/profile" or check for the presence of the SMSESSION cookie (only in case it is not set as HTTP-only).
One SECURITY NOTE: If you rely on the seamless SSO which is provided via SMSESSION cookie, be aware of the possible CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks!
Apparently both roles and the username will be available in spring if the integration is done as this describes
Integrating Spring Security with SiteMinder

Angular token and user login scenario

I m building app who uses oauth2.
I me using:
Laravel for backend
Oauth2 for Laravel (lucadegasperi)
Angular for frontend because it will be also and native mobile app:D.
My question is?
What is the workflow for user sign in?
Now i have.
User comes to site and enter username and password
Angular send post for access token and when access token is returned i go for user data. Then I store access_token in localstorage. I m using grant_type=password i forget to mention.
I have 2 hours when token gona expire. In that moment when token expire I go for new token by refresh_token functionality.
My Questions are:
Is this good way/approach?
What is supposed to happen when user close browser?
Now when user close browser and again enter to my app. I will check localstorage and then autheticate user by access_token. If Access Token is expired i will get new one.
What about remeber me option or so called keep me signed in?
Does it mean thant i must set token that will be expired in 365 days (lifetime)?
or create cookie/ localstorage with access token so when user comes newt time i read cookie/loaclastorage and then authorize user?
And finnaly about destroying token. Now my token will be detroyed when i log of from the app.
Thanks
We are building the same kind of service/app using the same components. We use a password flow and I store the token in local storage if the user ticks the "remember me" checkbox on the login form, otherwise I just store the token in an un-persisted variable that gets destroyed when the user refreshes or closes the browser.
See some notes on testing protected endpoints here:Testing OAuth 2.0 protected API endpoints in Laravel
Marijan!
I'm working on simple app containing two separate layers. 1) Rails 5 Json API provider. 2) Separate NodeJS server running Angular 2 application.
Angular 2 app on Login requests access token from google
Angular 2 app retrieves UserInfo from google/people API
Angular 2 app now able to POST json with User's display name and some id from Google Response json.
Angular 2 POSTs json to my Rails 5 API server (partially implemented, but already works with login/pass auth).
So far I have implemented implicit OAuth2 using the code similar to this Gist. Using this code I am able to get User Identification Info which is enough for me to identify the user in API provider or create account for it.
This approach works for me. Hope it will work for you as well.
Note: this approach might be insecure.

Twitter oAuth in my RESTful API

I have an Angular JS front end app that is separately deployed at http://localhost:9002 and a Play Scala back end deployed at http://localhost:9000
I want to expose a RESTful URL from the backend like http://localhost:9000/authenticate/twitter which redirects the user to the Twitter oAuth app asking them to login with their Twitter details.
I then want to redirect back to the Angular front end app and be able to call any other backend REST urls I have secured with the Twitter auth login.
I am wondering how to 'redirect' the user to the Twitter auth login page without losing my current angular state. I.e. could I do this in a pop-up and if so, then how? And how do I return from the oAuth login and store the user session info in the backend as well?
The best thing for me would be to pass the twitter login details to the backend and have the backend call the twitter auth stuff and store a user session there, then just give the front end a token it can use for each auth request, but the whole redirect to Twitter login page ruins this. Any ideas for how to implement what I want?
This is definitely doable as I've done it before (sorry no example - commercial code)
I assume you can open twitter in popup so I won't write code for it
main window
js
window.DaSecretBirdy = function (token) {
//do something with token
}
popup
open twitter auth page, set redirection to a custom page
on a custom page get the twitter token from a query string and call
js
window.opener.DaSecretBirdy(hereIsMyToken)
that's the concept that is working, keep in mind that you will need angularjs $apply if you want to assign variable on scope from external code

AngularJS recover user session - cookies or token

I'm developing an AngularJS app used by third part applications. The third part application and my AngularJS application have a common database where users preferences/credentials are stored. User can login from the third part application and, by redirecting the user into my application, I need to maintain the user logged in, without asking a new authentication procedure.
I can't use cookies because the two applications are in two different domains.
I can't pass a session TOKEN (correspondant to the user logged iin) in query parameters due to man in the middle risks.
Is it possible to make a POST request to an angularJS page? Third part app call my AngularJS login page POSTing a token in the body request. My app take the token, verifyies it and log-in the user.
Constraints:
App in different domains;
Maintain user logged in;
No sharing cookies;
Try to prevent man in the middle;
No query parameters;
HTTPS protocol;
web based applications.
Am I missing something in the https protocols/sharing sessions?
Are there other solutions supported by AngularJS?
How can I redirect the user from one application to another and maintaining the user logged in in a simple way? Is there a simple flow I haven't figured out?
AngularJS is based on REST api communications. I can ask for a webpage (GET the webpage), but I can't make a POST to an AngularJS page. Is there a way to pass/share some values from the first application to my second app in a secure way?

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