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  1. WildFly Core
  2. WFCORE-3658

Security context propagation using Elytron API doesn't work for EJB to protected Servlet scenario

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      One of the scenarios which are expected to work in Elytron is a Security context propagation from a protected EJB to a protected Servlet using HttpUrlConnection (details in RFE EAP7-284).

      The scenario doesn't work for me. My configuration:

      EJB client ->  protected EJB on server-1 -> protected Servlet on server-2 (BASIC authn)

      The EJB contains following code:

      final Callable<String> callable = () -> {
    URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
    conn.connect();
    try (InputStream is = conn.getInputStream()) {
        return IOUtils.toString(is, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    }
};

AuthenticationContext.empty().with(MatchRule.ALL, AuthenticationConfiguration.empty()
    .useForwardedIdentity(SecurityDomain.getCurrent())
    .setSaslMechanismSelector(SaslMechanismSelector.ALL))
    .runCallable(callable);

      The server-2 returns 401:

      java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http://127.0.0.1:8180/seccontext-server2/whoAmI
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1876)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1474)
	at org.wildfly.test.manual.elytron.seccontext.EntryBean.lambda$readUrl$1(EntryBean.java:69)

      There is still a chance, the problem is in the scenario configuration, but the documentation is silent about this topic.

      The problem could be in a missing integration of ElytronAuthenticator within the AuthenticationContext. I don't see it used when I debug the scenario. When I register the authenticator manually, I see another problem which will be reported in a separate JIRA.

              jkalina@redhat.com Jan Kalina (Inactive)
              olukas Ondrej Lukas (Inactive)
              Martin Svehla Martin Svehla
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