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Ankur Mhatre e9381dc5be Add Spring Authorization Server project: OAuth2/OIDC provider, client and resource server
Three modules on Spring Boot 4.1.1 with Spring Authorization Server 7.1.1: the provider
itself, a relying party, and an API that trusts its tokens. Client registration, PKCE,
a custom consent page and token customisation, with profiles that make each failure
reproducible.

Every claim is backed by captured output in docs/output/as-*.txt, regenerated by
authorization-server/scripts/run-all.sh. Notable findings, verified against the jars:

  - OAuth2AuthorizationServerConfiguration.applyDefaultSecurity(HttpSecurity) was deleted
    in 7.0, and both configuration classes moved into spring-security-config
  - ClientSettings.requireProofKey flipped from false to true, on the authorization server
    (1.5.8 -> 7.1.1) and on the OAuth2 client (6.5.1 -> 7.1.1)
  - requireProofKey(false) does not make PKCE optional for a public client; the code
    verifier is that client's only authentication at the token endpoint
  - MediaTypeRequestMatcher(TEXT_HTML) matches Accept: */*, so the token endpoint answers
    API callers with 302 -> /login unless setIgnoredMediaTypes(ALL) is called

Also renames the repository to spring-auth-demo and cross-links the new chapter set from
the existing documentation.
2026-08-24 08:20:38 +05:30

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------------------------------------------------------------------
== PKCE parameters (RFC 7636)
------------------------------------------------------------------
code_verifier RnM5322FJWXI9zUZDUkmRmK-x_rjKT6HHFQyIhSEqjtVkb527uqjZmfQCwrNmavk (64 chars)
code_challenge rzSywj6JKmWWVVBuZsD26hYR4_3PK0zZRCXrn_4sU9M
code_challenge_method S256
The verifier never leaves the client until the token request. The challenge is
all the authorization request carries, and it is a one-way hash of the verifier.
------------------------------------------------------------------
== 1. Log in to the authorization server (browser session)
------------------------------------------------------------------
$ curl -c jar -d username=alice -d password=password -d _csrf=<token> http://localhost:9000/login
HTTP/1.1 302
Location: http://localhost:9000/
------------------------------------------------------------------
== 2. GET /oauth2/authorize (client=demo-spa)
------------------------------------------------------------------
NO_CHALLENGE=1: the authorization request carries no code_challenge.
$ curl -b jar 'http://localhost:9000/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=demo-spa&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A8080%2Fauthorized&scope=openid%20orders.read&state=xyz123'
-> 302 http://127.0.0.1:8080/authorized?code=ydxIVNbSbrjWRlj1YxX6LS4cnXgDdzxTIyZgqoqlmX6cD8q-AYnL_Sdy6m5gqheZ-yd8qKUgSrrgMtg331sYHjblO3IYqGb1i94OxMypdyLr6RMqm_O_XuVZX2g1FSeD&state=xyz123
------------------------------------------------------------------
== 3. No consent page
------------------------------------------------------------------
The authorization endpoint went straight back to the client. Either consent is
off for this client, or every requested scope was already approved.
------------------------------------------------------------------
== 5. The authorization code
------------------------------------------------------------------
code = ydxIVNbSbrjWRlj1YxX6LS4cnXgDdzxTIyZgqoqlmX6cD8q-AYnL_Sdy6m5gqheZ-yd8qKUgSrrgMtg331sYHjblO3IYqGb1i94OxMypdyLr6RMqm_O_XuVZX2g1FSeD
state = xyz123 (the client's own value, returned untouched - compare it)
------------------------------------------------------------------
== 6a. Exchange the code WITHOUT the verifier
------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the request an attacker who stole the code can make.
HTTP 401
(empty response body)
>>> Rejected. invalid_grant is deliberately vague: the server will not tell
>>> a caller whether the code was wrong, expired, already used, or missing a
>>> verifier, because each of those is information an attacker can use.
Note: this consumed the code. Authorization codes are single-use, so the
successful exchange below needs a fresh one.
------------------------------------------------------------------
== 6b. A fresh code, exchanged properly
------------------------------------------------------------------
fresh code = uvr0H49ByWte7NfWDoDnZ61-11rMP0wxYFJMY8eM73Lm2dcc2Edl-oFdW3DwJNSqUBMyIRX8rY9JqPDZIvwnEo4grUU-D5Z-GTwYYV1B8Xvosdbg-vAjiss1wbRsvD03
$ curl -d grant_type=authorization_code -d code=... http://localhost:9000/oauth2/token
(no code_verifier - there was no challenge to verify against)
HTTP 401
(empty response body)
>>> No token, even though the client is registered with requireProofKey(false)
>>> and the authorization request carried no challenge. The reason is that a
>>> public client has no other way to authenticate at the token endpoint:
>>> PublicClientAuthenticationProvider delegates entirely to
>>> CodeVerifierAuthenticator, and raises invalid_client when there is nothing
>>> to verify. requireProofKey(false) relaxes the AUTHORIZATION endpoint only.