WebView not opening Remix app webpage as authenticated when navigating from Expo app

[lramosaj]

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Reproduction

webview opens as unauthenticated in mobile

Publishable key

pk_test_bmF0aXZlLWNvdy01NS5jbGVyay5hY2NvdW50cy5kZXYk

Description

I am working on an Expo app and using Clerk for authentication. I need to open a web view in the mobile app, but the authentication state should be passed from mobile to the web component opened on the web view (Web is Remix). I attempted it like this:

    source={{ uri: url, headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`
    }}}
    sharedCookiesEnabled={true}

But, I am not able to have a successful navigation, since I am unauthenticated when web view is opened. The value
token comes from the getToken of useAuth that I imported from @clerk/clerk-expo"
.

I also tried using it like this:

    source={{ uri: url, headers: {
      Cookies: `${token}`
    }}}
    sharedCookiesEnabled={true}

As a last effort, I tried copying the whole
cookies
body from the script in the network tag from my web app and pasting to the
Cookies
parameter above, but it was not successful. Here is the structure of that value:

  __clerk_db_jwt=...;
  __clerk_db_jwt_2fyn-cby=...; 
  __client_uat_2fyn-cby=...; 
  __client_uat=...; 
  __session_2fyn-cby=...;
  __session=...;
}

This looks like an issue with Clerk, since I suppose that opening a webview as authenticated should be possible.

Environment

System:
    OS: Linux 5.15 Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa)
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz
    Memory: 3.36 GB / 15.48 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.0.17 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 20.11.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.11.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.10 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 10.2.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.11.0/bin/npm
    pnpm: 9.1.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.11.0/bin/pnpm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 102.0.5005.115

[LekoArts]

Hi, thanks for the issue!

As of today Clerk can't support your described use case. This is because just opening a login page in a webview means the web agent would be its own client, and there isn’t a way currently to transfer that back to the actual device client.

That said, we are always looking for ways to improve our product in the future, so I've registered your feedback here for further review and consideration as a feature request.

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