For user authentication with external providers such as Google, it is using specific Owin middlewares. As for example Microsoft.Owin.Security.Google. WebAPI2 template uses this to support implicit flow authentication (response_type=token). But what about Code flow?
Is it possible to implement Code flow (response_type=code)?
After debugging those OAuth providers I noticed that passing return_type=code to Google, it successfully authenticates and returns json with access and refresh tokens, then user gets signed in by api/Account/ExternalLogin endpoint but at the end of the flow I get redirected to http://localhost:50321/?error=unsupported_response_type#.
I could not really find the flow where and why it is setting this specific error in the assembly.
Startup.Auth.cs looks like this:
public void ConfigureAuth(IAppBuilder app)
{
app.UseExternalSignInCookie(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ExternalCookie);
PublicClientId = "self";
var tokenTimeSpanInHours = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AccessTokenLifeTimeInHours"];
OAuthServerOptions = new OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions
{
Provider = new ApplicationOAuthProvider(PublicClientId),
TokenEndpointPath = new PathString("/api/token"),
AuthorizeEndpointPath = new PathString("/api/Account/ExternalLogin"),
AccessTokenExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromHours(Convert.ToInt16(tokenTimeSpanInHours)),
AllowInsecureHttp = true
};
app.UseOAuthBearerTokens(OAuthServerOptions);
var googleOAuthOptions = new GoogleOAuth2AuthenticationOptions
{
AccessType = "offline",
Provider = new CustomGoogleAuthProvider(),
ClientId = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GoogleAccountClientId"].ToString(),
ClientSecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GoogleAccountClientSecret"].ToString()
};
googleOAuthOptions.Scope.Add("profile");
googleOAuthOptions.Scope.Add("email");
googleOAuthOptions.Scope.Add("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send");
app.UseGoogleAuthentication(googleOAuthOptions);
}
Where is the problem then? Do I need some explicit configuration to tell that I want code flow? Is it supported?