cubicweb/web/cors.py
author Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@logilab.fr>
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:58:19 +0200
changeset 12567 26744ad37953
parent 11348 70337ad23145
permissions -rw-r--r--
Drop python2 support This mostly consists in removing the dependency on "six" and updating the code to use only Python3 idioms. Notice that we previously used TemporaryDirectory from cubicweb.devtools.testlib for compatibility with Python2. We now directly import it from tempfile.

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"""A set of utility functions to handle CORS requests

Unless specified, all references in this file are related to:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/cors

The provided implementation roughly follows:
  http://www.html5rocks.com/static/images/cors_server_flowchart.png

See also:
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/Access_control_CORS

"""

from urllib.parse import urlsplit

from cubicweb.web import LOGGER
info = LOGGER.info

class CORSFailed(Exception):
    """Raised when cross origin resource sharing checks failed"""


class CORSPreflight(Exception):
    """Raised when cross origin resource sharing checks detects the
    request as a valid preflight request"""


def process_request(req, config):
    """
    Process a request to apply CORS specification algorithms

    Check whether the CORS specification is respected and set corresponding
    headers to ensure response complies with the specification.

    In case of non-compliance, no CORS-related header is set.
    """
    base_url = urlsplit(req.base_url())
    expected_host = '://'.join((base_url.scheme, base_url.netloc))
    if not req.get_header('Origin') or req.get_header('Origin') == expected_host:
        # not a CORS request, nothing to do
        return
    try:
        # handle cross origin resource sharing (CORS)
        if req.http_method() == 'OPTIONS':
            if req.get_header('Access-Control-Request-Method'):
                # preflight CORS request
                process_preflight(req, config)
        else: # Simple CORS or actual request
            process_simple(req, config)
    except CORSFailed as exc:
        info('Cross origin resource sharing failed: %s' % exc)
    except CORSPreflight:
        info('Cross origin resource sharing: valid Preflight request %s')
        raise

def process_preflight(req, config):
    """cross origin resource sharing (preflight)
    Cf http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/#resource-preflight-requests
    """
    origin = check_origin(req, config)
    allowed_methods = set(config['access-control-allow-methods'])
    allowed_headers = set(config['access-control-allow-headers'])
    try:
        method = req.get_header('Access-Control-Request-Method')
    except ValueError:
        raise CORSFailed('Access-Control-Request-Method is incorrect')
    if method not in allowed_methods:
        raise CORSFailed('Method is not allowed')
    try:
        req.get_header('Access-Control-Request-Headers', ())
    except ValueError:
        raise CORSFailed('Access-Control-Request-Headers is incorrect')
    req.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', allowed_methods, raw=False)
    req.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', allowed_headers, raw=False)

    process_common(req, config, origin)
    raise CORSPreflight()

def process_simple(req, config):
    """Handle the Simple Cross-Origin Request case
    """
    origin = check_origin(req, config)
    exposed_headers = config['access-control-expose-headers']
    if exposed_headers:
        req.set_header('Access-Control-Expose-Headers', exposed_headers, raw=False)
    process_common(req, config, origin)

def process_common(req, config, origin):
    req.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', origin)
    # in CW, we always support credential/authentication
    req.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', 'true')

def check_origin(req, config):
    origin = req.get_header('Origin').lower()
    allowed_origins = config.get('access-control-allow-origin')
    if not allowed_origins:
        raise CORSFailed('access-control-allow-origin is not configured')
    if '*' not in allowed_origins and origin not in allowed_origins:
        raise CORSFailed('Origin is not allowed')
    # bit of sanity check; see "6.3 Security"
    myhost = urlsplit(req.base_url()).netloc
    host = req.get_header('Host')
    if host != myhost:
        info('cross origin resource sharing detected possible '
             'DNS rebinding attack Host header != host of base_url: '
             '%s != %s' % (host, myhost))
        raise CORSFailed('Host header and hostname do not match')
    # include "Vary: Origin" header (see 6.4)
    req.headers_out.addHeader('Vary', 'Origin')
    return origin