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Identity Server 4 - Angular–Chrome’s samesite cookie changes

Today I got into trouble when I tried to run an Ionic(Angular) application we had build. After being redirect to IdentityServer and returned to my application after  a successful login, a few seconds later I got the message that my session was expired and that I had to login again(and again, and again, …).

Inside our application we are using the great angular-oauth2-oidc library. One of it’s nice features is that it keeps our identity and access tokens up-to-date thanks to a built-in silent refresh mechanism. This mechanism uses a hidden iframe to call IdentityServer to renew our tokens.

Remark: we need this hidden iframe hack as we are still using an Implicit Flow. The plan is to switch to Code Flow which allows us to use refresh tokens.

Inside the developer console I see the following warnings:

A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at https://ids.development/ was set without the `SameSite` attribute. It has been blocked, as Chrome now only delivers cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with `SameSite=None` and `Secure`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592 and https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032.

It is the refresh that fails inside the iframe. The angular-oauth2-oidc library returned the following messages:

angular-oauth2-oidc.js:757 sessionCheckEventListener

angular-oauth2-oidc.js:757 sessionCheckEventListener wrong origin https://localhost expected https://ids.development

angular-oauth2-oidc.js:757 got info from session check inframe MessageEvent {isTrusted: true, data: "#error=login_required&state=pBN472WnAzQQ_IGcGSqpyq3-5mPtT-si9XSclJPpLirjm", origin: "https://localhost", lastEventId: "", source: Window, …}

angular-oauth2-oidc.js:757 parsed url {error: "login_required", state: "pBN472WnAzQQ_IGcGSqpyq3-5mPtT-si9XSclJPpLirjm"}

angular-oauth2-oidc.js:757 error trying to login

angular-oauth2-oidc.js:757 silent refresh did not work after session changed

angular-oauth2-oidc.js:757 silent refresh failed after session changed

To fix it, we have to do a change in IdentityServer and configure a different cookie policy:

More information: https://www.thinktecture.com/en/identity/samesite/prepare-your-identityserver/

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