How to change the authid

[Yamakaky]

Currently, it's not possible to change the authid after the VueWamp object creation. Maybe by redoing the Vue.use...?

A cleaner way would be to handle it directly in the plugin.

[lajosbencz]

Im not sure you should be able to change that... authid is a response by the router after authentication, clients should not be able to change it.

Is it possible with AutobahnJS to change the authid on demand after successfully connecting?

[Yamakaky]

Yeah, you can't change the authid after login. My use case is that I use the authid as username and token challenge as password for a web interface. I manually close the session and reopen a new one.

[Yamakaky]

Yeah, you can't change the authid after login. My use case is that I use the authid as username and token challenge as password for a web interface. I manually close the session and reopen a new one.

[oeway]

Any news on this issue?
I am trying to do something similar. Where I have a login workflow. When the webpage is loaded, it uses a anonymous authentication, then the user try to click a login button to login with authid and password.

So in that case, how to handle the authentication options? I tried to do a reconnect, but having problem with pass the new options and to force autobahn to reconnect.

[lajosbencz]

As far as I know, you SHOULD NOT change the authid from the client side. It might not even be possible.
Just imagine a hacker changing the authid on demand.

Authid is provided by the registered dynamic authenticators, or the static rules in the config.

Closing this issue as it is unsupported by crossbar

[Yamakaky]

You can, if you disconnect then reconnect. An easy way to do that would be handy.

[lajosbencz]

@Yamakaky could you paste in a code snippet of your re-auth process?

[Yamakaky]

export const reconnect = (() => {
    let connection

    return () => {
        if (connection) {
            // Throws if already closed
            try {
                connection.close("closing_old_connection")
            } catch (e) {
                console.error(e)
            }
        }

        return new window.Promise((resolve, reject) => {
                const url = ...
                const realm = ...
                connection = new autobahn.Connection({
                    url,
                    realm,
                    authmethods: [
                        "cookie",
                    ],
                    authid: username,
                    onchallenge: onchallenge,
                })
                connection.onopen = (...args) => {
                    onopen(...args)
                    resolve()
                }
                connection.onclose = (...args) => {
                    reject()
                    onclose(...args)
                }
                connection.open()
        })
    }
})()