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Zuul reverse proxy with Keycloak server

I'm configuring a Spring Cloud (Angel.SR6) application using the Zuul reverse proxy utility, in order to hide the internal service ports. My zuul (edge) service is published in the 8765 port and my organizations service is in the 8083 one. Everything goes smoothly when I access the application with no security, http://localhost:8765/organization/organizations returns the JSON with all the organizations.

However, now I want to integrate a Keycloak SSO (OAuth2) server for authorization purposes. I have added the Spring Security adapter in my organization service and configured it to authenticate in http://localhost:8080/auth. Everything goes well, except that zuul performs a redirection instead of proxying. So when authentication is successful, I get redirected to http://localhost:8083/organizations instead of http://localhost:8765/organization/organizations. Here there are my browser requests:

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That's because the keycloak adapter creates a token verification endpoint in the http://localhost:8083/sso/login, from which it performs a redirection to the authorization server in order to validate the token. When authorization server acknowledges it, a redirection is sent to the organization service, with the /organization path, so the end url being loaded is http://localhost:8083/organizations. But I would like the first requested url to be loaded instead.

Which choice do I have?

Solution

  • (Migrated from comment to answer)

    I ended up making a Github project in order to explain my problem to the keycloak team, and got a pull request from one of the development team members trying to help me out. Following their recommendations, I came into the conclusion that zuul is good to hide stateless services (bearer only ones), but not the ones that user directly interacts with. Here it is the whole thread in the mailing list.