How to put JWT claims into request headers using centralized JWTs?

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Hi,

I’m trying to add claims from a JWT directly into request headers using centralized JWTs and having trouble. The decode JWT claims are not part of $tyk_session or $tyk_meta that I can tell so I seem to have to use a middleware and am having trouble.

The decoded JWT information doesn’t seem to be in the request or session information available to the JS middleware and if I try to base64decode (atob) the claims section of the JWT which I get from request.Headers[“Authorization”][0].split(‘.’)[1] to then modify the SetHeaders and add claims it appears that that necessary function (atob) isn’t in the Otto JSVM Tyk appears to be using. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Richard

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Hi Richard, atob is implemented as a global function in most browsers, but it isn’t the same for JS engines.

I suggest appending an atob implementation to your middleware, I’ve just tried this under otto and it seems to work fine:

var Base64 = {
  _keyStr: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=",
  encode: function(input) {
    var output = "";
    var chr1, chr2, chr3, enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
    var i = 0;
    input = Base64._utf8_encode(input);
    while (i < input.length) {
      chr1 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
      chr2 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
      chr3 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
      enc1 = chr1 >> 2;
      enc2 = ((chr1 & 3) << 4) | (chr2 >> 4);
      enc3 = ((chr2 & 15) << 2) | (chr3 >> 6);
      enc4 = chr3 & 63;
      if (isNaN(chr2)) {
        enc3 = enc4 = 64;
      } else if (isNaN(chr3)) {
        enc4 = 64;
      }
      output = output + this._keyStr.charAt(enc1) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc2) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc3) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc4);
    }

    return output;
  },


  decode: function(input) {
    var output = "";
    var chr1, chr2, chr3;
    var enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
    var i = 0;
    input = input.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\+\/\=]/g, "");
    while (i < input.length) {
      enc1 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
      enc2 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
      enc3 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
      enc4 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
      chr1 = (enc1 << 2) | (enc2 >> 4);
      chr2 = ((enc2 & 15) << 4) | (enc3 >> 2);
      chr3 = ((enc3 & 3) << 6) | enc4;
      output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr1);
      if (enc3 != 64) {
        output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr2);
      }
      if (enc4 != 64) {
        output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr3);
      }
    }
    output = Base64._utf8_decode(output);
    return output;
  },

  _utf8_encode: function(string) {
    string = string.replace(/\r\n/g, "\n");
    var utftext = "";
    for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {
      var c = string.charCodeAt(n);
      if (c < 128) {
        utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
      }
      else if ((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
        utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
        utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
      }
      else {
        utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
        utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
        utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
      }
    }

    return utftext;
  },

  _utf8_decode: function(utftext) {
    var string = "";
    var i = 0;
    var c = c1 = c2 = 0;
    while (i < utftext.length) {
      c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);
      if (c < 128) {
        string += String.fromCharCode(c);
        i++;
      }
      else if ((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
        c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i + 1);
        string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
        i += 2;
      }
      else {
        c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i + 1);
        c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i + 2);
        string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
        i += 3;
      }
    }
    return string;
  }

}

// Usage: 

var input = "hello"
var output = Base64.encode(input)
console.log("output:", output)
var decoded = Base64.decode(output)
console.log("decoded:", decoded)

The expected output:

output: aGVsbG8=
decoded: hello

This feature will be available in the next release, if you’re happy to work with a nightly build, let us now and we’ll make it available very soon.

Thank you!

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