Redirect URL for oauth flow

[dev-mash]

I'm using oauth2 to authenticate users. This works fine with windows. My redirect URL is like https://tauri.localhost. Now I started to look into linux and found that the schema is tauri://localhost. But this redirect URL fails with following error:

"Redirection to URL with a scheme that is not HTTP(S)"

Is it possible to also have https://tauri.localhost on linux or is there any other solution to this problem?

[FabianLars]

You could make your app run on http://localhost:{port} via https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/tree/v1/plugins/localhost but this is only recommended if there's really no other way since it exposes your frontend to the whole system (if that matters for you).

Generally i'd recommend spawning a seperate localhost server on the rust side that only handles the redirect request, for non rust users i created a small plugin here (still missing docs) https://github.com/FabianLars/tauri-plugin-oauth. I created the plugin initially to be able to run the oauth flow in the browser for oauth services that don't support deep links (because i really hate in-app logins as a user 😅), however it does work for in-app flows too, you'll just have to manually trigger an url change if you register a call to the localhost server.

Edit: I forgot to give a straight answer to your last question: no it's not possible to use http(s)://tauri.localhost on linux or macos.

[TylerGrayStudent]

Would you have an example of how to use this? I'm really new to rust and would appreciate it a ton!

Edit: I see the examples. Silly me.

[dev-mash]

Thanks for your answer @FabianLars. Other that stated before, I think my provider actually supports deeplinks (i.e. yourapp:// as a redirect URL). So I think I would need to intercept the webviews redirect to yourapp:// and do the token fetching via a implementation in rust. Once that was successful, I redirect back to the app, i.e. tauri://localhost

I'm actually new to rust, so I tried to avoid to do the token fetching via rust. On windows I implemented the token fetching (a http POST request) in javascript. I think I could try to call my current javascript implementation from the rust interceptor.

I tried to adapt the code from this example:
https://github.com/FabianLars/tauri-plugin-deep-link/blob/main/example/main.rs

I started the app in dev mode (npm run tauri dev) and simulated a redirect via following javascript in the dev console:
window.location.replace("testapp://localhost");

I was expecting to see "Hello World" printed. But it did not. Do you have any idea why this is not called?

Thanks in advance &
Best regards,
Manuel

My code in main.rs is similar to this:

println!("Starting RUST GREETINGS World!");    
tauri_plugin_deep_link::prepare("de.fabianlars.deep-link-test");
    tauri::Builder::default()
    .setup(|app| {
          tauri_plugin_deep_link::register(
            "testapp",
            move |request| {
              println!("Hello World!");
              dbg!(&request);
//               handle.emit_all("scheme-request-received", request).unwrap();
            },
          )
          .unwrap(/* If listening to the scheme is optional for your app, you don't want to unwrap here. */);

          Ok(())
        })
        .invoke_handler(tauri::generate_handler![greet])
        .run(tauri::generate_context!())
        .expect("error while running tauri application");

I get the following error in the dev console:
[Error] Unhandled Promise Rejection: Scope not defined for window main and URL testapp://localhost. See https://tauri.app/v1/api/config/#securityconfig.dangerousremotedomainipcaccess and https://docs.rs/tauri/1/tauri/scope/struct.Ipc...

[FabianLars]

hmm, that one doesn't make sense unless your system doesn't have a /tmp dir but ubuntu should have it. Can you check if there's a -deep-link.sock file in the /tmp dir? (before you run tauri dev and while it's running)

[dev-mash]

Yes I can see this file in the /tmp folder when running the app:
de.fabianlars.deep-link-test-deep-link.sock

Content of the file shows: cat de.fabianlars.deep-link-test-deep-link.sock
cat: de.fabianlars.deep-link-test-deep-link.sock: No such device or address

[FabianLars]

just in case: make sure to change that identifier. it must be unique so using the one from the example is not a good idea.

Anyway, the behavior seems to be correct then so i'm a bit confused what's going on. Also, ignore the cat error, i think that's normal because it's not an actual file.

Can you check the output of xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/<your-protocol> then?

[dev-mash]

This is what I get:
manuel@Manuel:/tmp$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/testapp
tasks-handler.desktop

[FabianLars]

that's also correct and should mean that it's registered in your system 🤔

Can you post the output of the tauri info command? I'll try to repro it on my end tomorrow.

[dev-mash]

Thanks for your support:

npm run tauri info

[email protected] tauri
tauri info

[✔] Environment
- OS: Ubuntu 22.04 X64
✔ webkit2gtk-4.0: 2.42.4
✔ rsvg2: 2.52.5
✔ rustc: 1.75.0 (82e1608df 2023-12-21)
✔ cargo: 1.75.0 (1d8b05cdd 2023-11-20)
✔ rustup: 1.26.0 (5af9b9484 2023-04-05)
✔ Rust toolchain: stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (default)
- node: 18.12.1
- npm: 8.19.2

[-] Packages
- tauri [RUST]: 1.4.1
- tauri-build [RUST]: 1.4.0
- wry [RUST]: 0.24.3
- tao [RUST]: 0.16.2
- @tauri-apps/api [NPM]: 1.5.3
- @tauri-apps/cli [NPM]: 1.5.9

[-] App
- build-type: bundle
- CSP: unset
- distDir: ../dist/myapp-ui
- devPath: http://localhost:1420/tasks
- framework: Angular
- bundler: Webpack

[dev-mash]

Hi @FabianLars, did you had a chance to check this from your end?
Best regards,
Manuel

[dev-mash]

I gave it another try and I noticed a error in logs:
ERROR tauri_plugin_deep_link::platform_impl > Error creating socket listener: No such file or directory (os error 2)

Apparently this happens during:
tauri_plugin_deep_link::prepare("com.test.deep-link-test");

Can you help me to further troubleshoot this, @FabianLars ?

Best regards,
Manuel

[FabianLars]

That error doesn't tell us much, or really, it's not necessarily an error actually. I just messed up the wording a bit here. Is your project public? Or can you create a minimal reproduction repo we can try?

[dev-mash]

That error doesn't tell us much, or really, it's not necessarily an error actually. I just messed up the wording a bit here. Is your project public? Or can you create a minimal reproduction repo we can try?

I setup a new project. I took the example from your project: https://github.com/FabianLars/tauri-plugin-deep-link/blob/main/example/main.rs

This works on my windows machine, but its not working on my linux machine. Browser console shows this (when trying to redirect to my-scheme://test.de):
[Error] Failed to load resource: The URL can’t be shown (test.de, line 0)
[Error] Unhandled Promise Rejection: Scope not defined for window main and URL my-scheme://test.de. See https://tauri.app/v1/api/config/#securityconfig.dangerousremotedomainipcaccess and https://docs.rs/tauri/1/tauri/scope/struct.Ipc...

I added the dependency to the cargo.toml:
tauri-plugin-deep-link = "=0.1.2"

and added this in the main.rs

tauri_plugin_deep_link::prepare("com.test.deep-link-test");

and in the setup method of tauri builder:
tauri_plugin_deep_link::register(
"my-scheme",
move |request| {
println!("Hello Handler");
dbg!(&request);
// handle.emit_all("scheme-request-received", request).unwrap();
},
)
.unwrap(/* If listening to the scheme is optional for your app, you don't want to unwrap here. */);

[FabianLars]

can you check what happens if you write this in your terminal?

xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/my-scheme

[dev-mash]

It gives following output:
tasks-handler.desktop

My system details I also provided last time (npm run tauri info)

I now updated from tauri 1.4 to 1.5 and set dangerousUseHttpScheme in the tauri config to true. But this also did not solve the problem.