As stated above the documentation looks unclear (IMHO), until Spring provide some clear documentation, here is a boilerplate to save you from spending two days trying to understand what the security chain is doing.
A really nice attempt was made by Rob-Leggett but, he was forking some Springs class and I don't feel comfortable doing so.
Things to know:
- Security chain and Security config for http and WebSocket are completely independent.
- Spring
AuthenticationProvider take not part at all in Websocket authentication.
- The authentication won't happen on HTTP negotiation endpoint because none of the JavaScripts STOMP (websocket) sends the necessary authentication headers along with the HTTP request.
- Once set on CONNECT request, the user (
simpUser) will be stored in the websocket session and no more authentication will be required on further messages.
Maven deps
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-websocket</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-messaging</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-messaging</artifactId>
</dependency>
WebSocket configuration
The below config register a simple message broker (a simple endpoint that we will later protect).
@Configuration
@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker
public class WebSocketConfig extends WebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurer {
@Override
public void configureMessageBroker(final MessageBrokerRegistry config) {
// These are endpoints the client can subscribes to.
config.enableSimpleBroker("/queue/topic");
// Message received with one of those below destinationPrefixes will be automatically router to controllers @MessageMapping
config.setApplicationDestinationPrefixes("/app");
}
@Override
public void registerStompEndpoints(final StompEndpointRegistry registry) {
// Handshake endpoint
registry.addEndpoint("stomp"); // If you want to you can chain setAllowedOrigins("*")
}
}
Spring security config
Since the Stomp protocol rely on a first HTTP Request, we'll need to authorize HTTP call to our stomp handshake endpoint.
@Configuration
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
@Override
protected void configure(final HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
// This is not for websocket authorization, and this should most likely not be altered.
http
.httpBasic().disable()
.sessionManagement().sessionCreationPolicy(SessionCreationPolicy.STATELESS).and()
.authorizeRequests().antMatchers("/stomp").permitAll()
.anyRequest().denyAll();
}
}
Then we'll create a service responsible for authenticating users.
@Component
public class WebSocketAuthenticatorService {
// This method MUST return a UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken instance, the spring security chain is testing it with 'instanceof' later on. So don't use a subclass of it or any other class
public UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken getAuthenticatedOrFail(final String username, final String password) throws AuthenticationException {
if (username == null || username.trim().isEmpty()) {
throw new AuthenticationCredentialsNotFoundException("Username was null or empty.");
}
if (password == null || password.trim().isEmpty()) {
throw new AuthenticationCredentialsNotFoundException("Password was null or empty.");
}
// Add your own logic for retrieving user in fetchUserFromDb()
if (fetchUserFromDb(username, password) == null) {
throw new BadCredentialsException("Bad credentials for user " + username);
}
// null credentials, we do not pass the password along
return new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(
username,
null,
Collections.singleton((GrantedAuthority) () -> "USER") // MUST provide at least one role
);
}
}
Note that: UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken MUST have at least one GrantedAuthority, if you use another constructor, Spring will auto-set isAuthenticated = false.
Almost there, now we need to create an Interceptor that will set the `simpUser` header or throw `AuthenticationException` on CONNECT messages.
@Component
public class AuthChannelInterceptorAdapter extends ChannelInterceptor {
private static final String USERNAME_HEADER = "login";
private static final String PASSWORD_HEADER = "passcode";
private final WebSocketAuthenticatorService webSocketAuthenticatorService;
@Inject
public AuthChannelInterceptorAdapter(final WebSocketAuthenticatorService webSocketAuthenticatorService) {
this.webSocketAuthenticatorService = webSocketAuthenticatorService;
}
@Override
public Message<?> preSend(final Message<?> message, final MessageChannel channel) throws AuthenticationException {
final StompHeaderAccessor accessor = MessageHeaderAccessor.getAccessor(message, StompHeaderAccessor.class);
if (StompCommand.CONNECT == accessor.getCommand()) {
final String username = accessor.getFirstNativeHeader(USERNAME_HEADER);
final String password = accessor.getFirstNativeHeader(PASSWORD_HEADER);
final UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken user = webSocketAuthenticatorService.getAuthenticatedOrFail(username, password);
accessor.setUser(user);
}
return message;
}
}
Note that: preSend() MUST return a UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken, another element in the spring security chain test this.
Note that: If your UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken was built without passing GrantedAuthority, the authentication will fail, because the constructor without granted authorities auto set authenticated = false THIS IS AN IMPORTANT DETAIL which is not documented in spring-security.
Finally create two more class to handle respectively Authorization and Authentication.
@Configuration
@Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE + 99)
public class WebSocketAuthenticationSecurityConfig extends WebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurer {
@Inject
private AuthChannelInterceptorAdapter authChannelInterceptorAdapter;
@Override
public void registerStompEndpoints(final StompEndpointRegistry registry) {
// Endpoints are already registered on WebSocketConfig, no need to add more.
}
@Override
public void configureClientInboundChannel(final ChannelRegistration registration) {
registration.setInterceptors(authChannelInterceptorAdapter);
}
}
Note that: The @Order is CRUCIAL don't forget it, it allows our interceptor to be registered first in the security chain.
@Configuration
public class WebSocketAuthorizationSecurityConfig extends AbstractSecurityWebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurer {
@Override
protected void configureInbound(final MessageSecurityMetadataSourceRegistry messages) {
// You can customize your authorization mapping here.
messages.anyMessage().authenticated();
}
// TODO: For test purpose (and simplicity) i disabled CSRF, but you should re-enable this and provide a CRSF endpoint.
@Override
protected boolean sameOriginDisabled() {
return true;
}
}
