Authorization header not passed by ZuulProxy starting with Brixton.RC1

Question

In switching from Spring Cloud

Brixton.M5

to

Brixton.RC1

my ZuulProxy no longer passes

Authorization

headers downstream to my proxied services.

There's various actors in play in my setup, but most all of them are fairly simple:
- AuthorizationServer: runs separately; hands out JWTs to clients
- Clients: get JWTs from OAuth server; each with access to a subset of resources.
- ResourceServers: consume JWTs for access decisions
- MyZuulProxy: proxies various resource servers; should relay JWTs.

It should be noted that MyZuulProxy has no security dependencies whatsoever; It passed the

Authorization: Bearer {JWT}

header it receives to the ResourceServers, pre-RC1. MyZuulProxy is explicitly not a Client itself, and does not use

@EnableOAuth2SSO

or similar at the moment.

What could I do to get MyZuulProxy to relay the JWTs to the ResourceServers again when using Spring Cloud Brixton.RC1?

There's very little code to post: It's just

@EnableZuulProxy

,

@EnableAuthorizationServer

and

@EnableResourceServer

in three different jars. My Clients are not Spring applications.

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Answer 1

Update: Fixed in https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix/pull/963/files

Sensitive headers can also be set globally setting zuul.sensitiveHeaders. If sensitiveHeaders is set on a route, this will override the global sensitiveHeaders setting.

So use:

# Pass Authorization header downstream
zuul:
  sensitive-headers: Cookie,Set-Cookie

So pending a fix for https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix/issues/944, jebeaudet was kind enough to provide a workaround:

@Component
public class RelayTokenFilter extends ZuulFilter {

@Override
public Object run() {
    RequestContext ctx = RequestContext.getCurrentContext();

    // Alter ignored headers as per: https://gitter.im/spring-cloud/spring-cloud?at=56fea31f11ea211749c3ed22
    Set<String> headers = (Set<String>) ctx.get("ignoredHeaders");
    // We need our JWT tokens relayed to resource servers
    headers.remove("authorization");

    return null;
}

@Override
public boolean shouldFilter() {
    return true;
}

@Override
public String filterType() {
    return "pre";
}

@Override
public int filterOrder() {
    return 10000;
}
}

Authorization header not passed by ZuulProxy starting with Brixton.RC1

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