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Nico_the_other
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Dec 12, 2023

BIGIP OAUTH : Transmit "Application id" to backend server after a successful atuthentication

Hello @ all  🙂 I took over the management of a bigip (15.1.1) on which APM is configured, in particular to do OAUTH for partner applications. I'd like to know if it is possible to transmit used ap...
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  • Lucas_Thompson's avatar
    Lucas_Thompson
    Jan 08, 2024

    Thanks for the extra detail.

    I'd suppose that if your user session is authenticated with APM (the user is sending APM's MRHSession cookie so is associated with an APM session) and the app ID is recorded inside the session, and the user is accessing the backend through APM, all you'd have to do is grab this info and add a header during ACCES_ACL_ALLOWED. This event is fired during each network request from users, and can be used more or less like HTTP_REQUEST.

     

    when ACCESS_ACL_ALLOWED {
      set appid [ACCESS::session data get "session.oauth.authz.client_id"]
      HTTP::header replace "X-PARTNER-ID" $appid
      log "Inserted appid: $appid"
    }

     

  • Lucas_Thompson's avatar
    Lucas_Thompson
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    Dec 13, 2023

    To add to this a little,

    I think you'd need to hard-code the app-id and just put it into the iRule manually. The data-plane in APM has some limited read access to *some* APM resource information (this is the info stored inside the "policy snapshot") using "ACCESS::session data get config <fully-qualified config object name>", but I'm almost certain that APM doesn't store information about app-ids in the snapshot.