FR: Authorization flow with PKCE

[ronackman]

• Operating System version: Windows 11
• Browser version: Chrome Version 97.0.4692.71 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Firebase SDK version: 9.6.4
• Firebase Product: auth

Recommended best practice for browser apps is authorization code flow with PKCE.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-browser-based-apps
Are there plans to build this into the Firebase auth library?

[weixifan]

Tracked internally with b/216852386.

[Nushio]

Any updates on this?

[pragatimodi]

Hi, thanks for filing this issue! We are unable to promise any timeline for this feature request, but adding a +1 to this will help us prioritize it on our roadmap.

[sebinbenjamin]

Any updates on the feature request? Does this mean the methods mentioned in the docs https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/microsoft-oauth would not work?

I'm coming from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76727538/firebase-authentication-with-microsoft-error-proof-key-for-code-exchange-is-re/76815902#76815902

[vojdan]

Just inspected the call to https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize with Burp Suite and it does not include the required code_challenge param for SPAs.

[jakobbjelver]

It seems like this issue is only affecting applications set up as SPAs. In my case, I temporarily resolved it by changing my configuration from SPA to Web when registering a new platform in my application in the Azure Portal. While I am sure this might lead to other issues, especially if the web page actually in an SPA, it is a quick fix.

[kdawgwilk]

I did find that firebase/auth does allow you to set custom parameters with:

const provider = new OAuthProvider('microsoft.com');
provider.setCustomParameters({
  code_challenge: '...',
});

But not sure what to set it to yet, will read more on the pkce RFC docs

[urakozz]

@kdawgwilk you can generate a code challenge with codeVerifier, that's true, but it wouldn't help much. The thing is that codeVerifier also has to be supported by the auth backend on the grant token phase

[tanandy]

any update ?