generate_token() not working on rstudio server

[tsahota]

In rstudio desktop (windows), the followings works:

generate_token(client_id = "XXXXXXX",
                          client_secret = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY",
                          cache = TRUE)

I get Authentication complete. Please close this page and return to R. in the browser with url of the format http://localhost:1410/?code=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&state=YYYYYYYYY#_=_

However in RStudio server (running through docker) gives a "This site can’t be reached. localhost refused to connect." message in the browser.

The RStudio server can use the .httr-oauth generated just fine.

Any ideas? Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks!

[mrkaye97]

Hey @tsahota, thanks for putting in the issue!

My suspicion is that the wiring for callback URLs doesn't work the same in Docker / RSS as it does on your local where you can open a page in a browser.

I tried to repro in Docker on local. Here's what I did (from the command line):

docker run -it --entrypoint bash rocker/r-ver:4.1.2

Then, in the bash session I ran:

apt-get update && \
apt-get upgrade -y && \
apt-get install -y --reinstall xdg-utils && \
apt-get install -y lynx

R

then after installing packages and starting R, I did:

install.packages("remotes")

remotes::install_github("mrkaye97/fitbitr")

fitbitr::generate_token(client_id = "XXX", client_secret = "YYY")

and I saw:

Waiting for authentication in browser...
Press Esc/Ctrl + C to abort

which just hung for me, since I don't have a browser to authenticate in when running in Docker.

TL;DR: I don't think as it's written right now, fitbitr will work in Docker. That said, if you're interested in contributing an auth flow that will work non-interactively, that would be awesome!

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