sse.proxy.jwt

sse.proxy.jwt

Listens on https port 7143 and will stream back whatever is published to sse_server on tcp port 7001.

Requirements

• bash, jq, nc
• Kubernetes (e.g. Docker Desktop with Kubernetes enabled)
• kubectl
• helm 3.0+
• jwt-cli

Install jwt-cli client

Generates JWT tokens from the command line.

brew install mike-engel/jwt-cli/jwt-cli

Setup

The setup.sh script:

• installs Zilla and SSE server to the Kubernetes cluster with helm and waits for the pods to start up
• copies the contents of the www directory to the Zilla pod
• starts port forwarding

./setup.sh

output:

+ ZILLA_CHART=oci://ghcr.io/aklivity/charts/zilla
+ helm upgrade --install zilla-sse-proxy-jwt oci://ghcr.io/aklivity/charts/zilla --namespace zilla-sse-proxy-jwt --create-namespace --wait [...]
NAME: zilla-sse-proxy-jwt
LAST DEPLOYED: [...]
NAMESPACE: zilla-sse-proxy-jwt
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
NOTES:
Zilla has been installed.
[...]
+ helm upgrade --install zilla-sse-proxy-jwt-sse chart --namespace zilla-sse-proxy-jwt --create-namespace --wait
NAME: zilla-sse-proxy-jwt-sse
LAST DEPLOYED: [...]
NAMESPACE: zilla-sse-proxy-jwt
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
++ kubectl get pods --namespace zilla-sse-proxy-jwt --selector app.kubernetes.io/instance=zilla -o json
++ jq -r '.items[0].metadata.name'
+ ZILLA_POD=zilla-1234567890-abcde
+ kubectl cp --namespace zilla-sse-proxy-jwt www zilla-1234567890-abcde:/var/
+ kubectl port-forward --namespace zilla-sse-proxy-jwt service/zilla 7143
+ nc -z localhost 7143
+ kubectl port-forward --namespace zilla-sse-proxy-jwt service/sse-server 8001 7001
Connection to localhost port 7143 [tcp/websm] succeeded!
+ nc -z localhost 8001
+ sleep 1
+ nc -z localhost 8001
Connection to localhost port 8001 [tcp/vcom-tunnel] succeeded!

Generate JWT token

Generate JWT token valid for 30 seconds and signed by local private key.

export JWT_TOKEN=$(jwt encode \
    --alg "RS256" \
    --kid "example" \
    --iss "https://auth.example.com" \
    --aud "https://api.example.com" \
    --sub "example" \
    --exp=+30s \
    --no-iat \
    --payload "scope=proxy:stream" \
    --secret @private.pem)

Verify behavior

Connect curl client first, then send Hello, world ... from nc client. Note that the Hello, world ... event will not arrive until after using nc to send the Hello, world ... message in the next step.

curl -v --cacert test-ca.crt "https://localhost:7143/events?access_token=${JWT_TOKEN}"

output:

*   Trying 127.0.0.1:7143...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 7143 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*  CAfile: test-ca.crt
*  CApath: none
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
*  subject: C=US; ST=California; L=Palo Alto; O=Aklivity; OU=Development; CN=localhost
*  start date: Dec 21 23:04:14 2021 GMT
*  expire date: Dec 19 23:04:14 2031 GMT
*  common name: localhost (matched)
*  issuer: C=US; ST=California; L=Palo Alto; O=Aklivity; OU=Development; CN=Test CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multiplexing
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x7fe6bc011e00)
> GET /events HTTP/2
> Host: localhost:7143
> user-agent: curl/7.79.1
> accept: */*
> authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQ.eyJhdWQiOiJodHRwczovL2FwaS5leGFtcGxlLmNvbSIsImV4cCI6MTY2MTc5MDM1MCwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hdXRoLmV4YW1wbGUuY29tIiwic2NvcGUiOiJwcm94eTpzdHJlYW0iLCJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIn0.XAugWfUFa-oU4Hx7Nn00zq9K9oTEkSknQvmiiAtJCRouIRXyl4qCAlQmOeI35JhN_RLj4p9EgoyCVtlZNWXKVcTeAxaAQrNeKywQ58wsn0VFdKHB2LXR0oxHXOtJIkl9oJWaM4IvUenKAfs2g-yHQtKNryhu9q8TgOPEW7JeqfCaV3J_xjn7WjMILggLde6lu8haGNa1ePDMxJwZ2Z9AQd-5Gcfyx9lQj_G7VQBHR5j8c5LrXx4U8E5f4KOYFUI7xs2wSuTApZyQdmetIRpFkIfsqVcH_rtdqs6ZuCTwmaKwXt-9KNvvg3n0joN1jqdtE7XhnW19-LQK62RgrEV6ZA
> 
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 2147483647)!
< HTTP/2 200 
< content-type: text/event-stream
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< 
data:Hello, world Wed Aug 29 9:05:52 PDT 2022

echo '{ "data": "Hello, world '`date`'" }' | nc -c localhost 7001

About 20 seconds after the JWT token was generated, when it is due to expire in 10 seconds, a challenge event is sent to the client.

event:challenge
data:{"method":"POST","headers":{"content-type":"application/x-challenge-response"}}

When a client receives the challenge event, the payload indicates the method and headers to be included in the challenge-response HTTP request, along with an updated JWT token via the authorization header.

Note that if the client does not respond to the challenge event with an updated JWT token in time, then the SSE stream ends, ensuring that only authorized clients are allowed access.

* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

Browser

Browse to https://localhost:7143/index.html and make sure to visit the localhost site and trust the localhost certificate.

Click the Go button to attach the browser SSE event source via Zilla.

Open the browser developer tools network tab to see the EventStream for the specific events HTTP request.

The challenge event will show there, and the corresponding fetch request for the challenge response to provide the refreshed authorization token.

Note: if you uncheck the reauthorize checkbox, then the challenge event will be ignored and the event stream will end with an error event logged to the console when the JWT token expires, as expected.

Teardown

The teardown.sh script stops port forwarding, uninstalls Zilla and deletes the namespace.

./teardown.sh

output:

+ pgrep kubectl
99999
+ killall kubectl
+ helm uninstall zilla-sse-proxy-jwt zilla-sse-proxy-jwt-sse --namespace zilla-sse-proxy-jwt
release "zilla-sse-proxy-jwt" uninstalled
release "zilla-sse-proxy-jwt-sse" uninstalled
+ kubectl delete namespace zilla-sse-proxy-jwt
namespace "zilla-sse-proxy-jwt" deleted