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Secure RESTful API Automation With JavaScript

Pragmatic RESTful API principles, along with a solid consumption architecture, can allow for a great amount of automation in your program development. At the same time, securing the application can be extremely tricky from JavaScript. In this session we will explore several principles behind RESTful API design and consumption using JavaScript, many of the standards that were integrated in the redevelopment of the PayPal API architecture in the new RESTful APIs. We will cover many of these architecture standards, including: - Building in action automation using HATEOAS - OAuth 2 in the JavaScript model - The challenges behind secure resource consumption through JavaScript

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Secure RESTful API Automation With JavaScript

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  1. Secure RESTful API Automation With JavaScript Jonathan LeBlanc (@jcleblanc) Head of Developer Evangelism PayPal North America

  2. Automation?

  3. What JavaScript Can Feel Like

  4. JavaScript Challenges

  5. The Same-Origin Policy

  6. Keeping Private Keys Private

  7. Not Providing a Hacked Experience

  8. How Did We Used to Do It?

  9. Server-side Proxies

  10. Flash / iFrame Proxies

  11. Private Token Storage

  12. Securing Content Negotiation

  13. A Modern Approach OAuth 2 Tight Access Control CORS Easy Access Control

  14. OAuth 2 User Agent Flow

  15. User Agent Flow: Redirect Prepare the Redirect URI Authorization Endpoint client_id response_type (token) scope redirect_uri Browser Redirect Redirect URI

  16. User Agent Flow: Redirect Building the redirect link var auth_uri = auth_endpoint + "?response_type=token" + "&client_id=" + client_id + "&scope=profile" + "&redirect_uri=" + window.location; $("#auth_btn").attr("href", auth_uri);

  17. User Agent Flow: Hash Mod Fetch the Hash Mod access_token refresh_token expires_in Extract Access Token

  18. User Agent Flow: Hash Mod Extracting the access token from the hash http://site.com/callback#access_token=rBEGu1FQr5 4AzqE3Q&refresh_token=rEBt51FZr54HayqE3V4a& expires_in=3600 var hash = document.location.hash; var match = hash.match(/access_token=(\w+)/);

  19. User Agent Flow: Get Resources Set Request Headers + URI Resource Endpoint Header: token type + access token Header: accept data type HTTPS Request

  20. User Agent Flow: Get Resources Making an authorized request $.ajax({ url: resource_uri, beforeSend: function (xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'OAuth ' + token); xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'application/json'); }, success: function (response) { //use response object } });

  21. CORS Easy Access Control

  22. Cross Origin Issues and Options Access to other domains / subdomains is restricted (same origin policy) JSONP to request resources across domains Only supports HTTP GET requests Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) Supports additional range of HTTP requests

  23. Can you use it? http://caniuse.com/cors

  24. How Does it Work? Site sends Origin header to server OPTIONS /v1/oauth2/token HTTP/1.1 Origin: http://jcleblanc.com Access-Control-Request-Method: PUT Host: api.sandbox.paypal.com Accept-Language: en-US Connection: keep-alive ...

  25. How Does it Work? Server responds with matching Access-Control-Allow-Origin header Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://jcleblanc.com Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

  26. A Lil’ Bit O’ Automation

  27. Uniform Interface Sub-Constraints Resource Identification Resources must be manipulated via representations Self descriptive messages Hypermedia as the engine of application state

  28. Uniform Interface Sub-Constraints Resource Identification Resources must be manipulated via representations Self descriptive messages Hypermedia as the engine of application state

  29. HATEOAS

  30. How we Normally Consume APIs

  31. Using HATEOAS to Automate

  32. How HATEOAS Works You make an API request curl -v -X GET https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/authoriz ation/2DC87612EK520411B \ -H "Content-Type:application/json" \ -H "Authorization:Bearer ENxom5Fof1KqAffEsXtx1HTEK__KVdIsaCYF8C"

  33. "links": [ { "href":"https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/ authorization/6H149011U8307001M", "rel":"self", "method":"GET" },{ "href":"https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/ authorization/6H149011U8307001M/capture", "rel":"capture", "method":"POST" },{ "href":"https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/ authorization/6H149011U8307001M/void", "rel":"void", "method":"POST" } ]

  34. Object Chaining

  35. Interactions Should be Stateless Send enough detail to not have to make another request to the API { "id": "PAY-17S8410768582940NKEE66EQ", "create_time": "2013-01-31T04:12:02Z", "update_time": "2013-01-31T04:12:04Z", "state": "approved", "intent": "sale", "payer": {...}, "transactions": [{...}], "links": [{...}] }

  36. Resources and Representations Manipulate a concept (e.g. payment) with the intended state

  37. Chaining Actions The first request builds the action object Subsequent calls manipulate the object var paymentObj = getPreAuth(paymentID) .getNextAction() .processNext(); //build pay object //next HATEOAS link //process action

  38. In Summation… Security needs to allow you to work the browser security model Always assume statelessness Build to allow your developers to automate complexities

  39. Thanks! Questions? http://www.slideshare.net/jcleblanc Jonathan LeBlanc (@jcleblanc) Head of Developer Evangelism PayPal North America

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