Faraday timeout error with omniauth (custom strategy)/doorkeeper

Question

I'm currently following along with this railscast and for my specific situation am running into a Faraday timeout error on the callback from omniauth.

Currently I'm using a rails application as an API and backbone as a javascript front-end (on the same application)

I decided I wanted to lock down the API with OAuth and provided a custom strategy for Omniauth to access the API as a client as well as Doorkeeper to handle the authorization logic

 module OmniAuth
      module Strategies
        class Twiddle < OmniAuth::Strategies::OAuth2
          option :name, :twiddle
    
          option :client_options, {
            site: "http://localhost:3001",
            authorize_path: "/oauth/authorize"
          }
    
          uid do
            raw_info["id"]
          end
    
          info do
            { 
              firstName: raw_info["firstName"],
              lastName: raw_info["lastName"], 
              email: raw_info["email"]
            }
          end
    
          def raw_info
            @raw_info ||= access_token.get('/api/v1/user').parsed
          end
        end
      end
    end

I included the custom strategy like this:

require File.expand_path('lib/omniauth/strategies/twiddle', Rails.root)

Rails.application.config.middleware.use OmniAuth::Builder do
  provider :twiddle, id, secret # Omitting the actual ones for obvious reasons
end

I am currently using these gems in my bundle

# OAuth 
gem 'oauth2'
gem 'omniauth'
gem 'omniauth-oauth2'
gem 'omniauth-facebook'
gem 'doorkeeper'

Here is where I authenticate and attempt to retrive the proper access token (and also where I get stuck)

 def loginParse
    if ( user = User.authenticate( params[:email], params[:password] ) ) 
      session[:user_id] = user.id
      redirect_to '/auth/twiddle/' 
    else 
      render :controller => "authentication", :action => "loginIndex", :notice => "Incorrect credentials" 
    end
  end

Here is the routing from the routes.rb

  # Oauth urls
  match '/auth/twiddle/callback', to: "authentication#connectAPI"
  match "/auth/facebook/callback", to: "authentication#loginSocialMedia"

The application never is able to render the connectAPI action, getting COMPLETELY stuck at this point (given by the server logs)

  User Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` = 1 LIMIT 1
  Doorkeeper::Application Load (0.2ms)  SELECT `oauth_applications`.* FROM `oauth_applications` WHERE `oauth_applications`.`uid` = '' LIMIT 1
  CACHE (0.0ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` = 1 LIMIT 1
  Doorkeeper::AccessToken Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `oauth_access_tokens`.* FROM `oauth_access_tokens` WHERE `oauth_access_tokens`.`revoked_at` IS NULL AND `oauth_access_tokens`.`application_id` = 1 AND `oauth_access_tokens`.`resource_owner_id` = 1 ORDER BY created_at desc LIMIT 1
   (0.1ms)  BEGIN
  Doorkeeper::AccessGrant Load (0.2ms)  SELECT `oauth_access_grants`.* FROM `oauth_access_grants` WHERE `oauth_access_grants`.`token` = '' LIMIT 1
  SQL (1.1ms)  INSERT INTO `oauth_access_grants` (`application_id`, `created_at`, `expires_in`, `redirect_uri`, `resource_owner_id`, `revoked_at`, `scopes`, `token`) VALUES (1, '2012-08-08 03:10:31', 600, 'http://localhost:3001/auth/twiddle/callback', 1, NULL, '', '')
   (1.4ms)  COMMIT
Redirected to http://localhost:3001/auth/twiddle/callback?code=a
Completed 302 Found in 12ms (ActiveRecord: 3.7ms)
(twiddle) Callback phase initiated.

Many of the uids/important information have been omitted from the log.

Finally this error is given:

Faraday::Error::TimeoutError (Timeout::Error):

I hope I have been thorough in my explanation of this problem.

I don't know why exactly the application seems to be freezing at the callback initiated part of omniauth. I have tried updating bundler as a few other stackoverflow questions have pointed me to but it is not working.

Perhaps my understanding of OAuth2 is a bit murky.

If anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it

Answer 1

I'm not sure this applies to you been here was my scenario:

Problem

• An app with data that our internal OAuth server wants
• An OAuth server with little, to no data on it
• We want to offload the authentication portion of App1 to App2 without moving data

Solution

• App1 uses App2 as the Authentication server
• App2 uses App1 for user data

Problem from this solution

Deadlock - App1 is waiting for an OAuth response from App2, but to complete that response App2 must wait for a response from App1.

Final observation

In development mode on Rails (with WebBrick) you can't run multi-threaded, so the request may never be allowed to complete.

My solution

My solution was to install puma and add to config/environments/development.rb:

if ENV["THREADS"]
  config.threadsafe!
end

Then when you start the server you'd do THREADS=1 rails s Puma to test your OAuth stuff.

OR

Or your scenario is completely different and you're actually not communicating between your services. Is your extra_info (like Github's /user) endpoint functioning on the OAuth server? Is your callback actually doing anything?

I hope this helps!