This makes the code shareable between:
- the broadcast tour pages
- the broadcast settings platform admin page
- the regular service navigation
On the training mode tour pages we don’t want to confuse people with the
organisation name or _Switch service_ links, so those are omitted and
the code is therefore slightly different.
This naming was introduced in 2016 without explanation [1]. I find it
confusing because:
- It's reminiscent of "_app", which is a Python convention indicating
the variable is internal, so maybe avoid using it.
- It suggests there's some other "app" fixture I should be using (there
isn't, though).
The Python style guide describes using an underscore suffix to avoid
clashes with inbuilt names [1], which is sort of applicable if we need
to import the "app" module [2]. However, we can also avoid clashes by
choosing a different name, without the strange underscore.
[1]: 3b1d521c10
[2]: 78824f54fd/tests/app/main/views/test_forgot_password.py (L5)
At the moment if you’re invited to a live broadcast service you get the
training mode tour. This is misleading, and could make people think they
weren’t in danger of sending a real alert.
This commit adds a short, 2 step tour for users invited to a live
broadcast service.
Because we were redirecting in all cases the error message wasn’t being
shown.
This commit changes the endpoint to respond with content (including an
error message) if the `POST` is not successful.
We want people to be really sure before sending a live broadcast, not
just clicking through the green buttons.
This commit adds a checkbox which explains exactly the consequences of
what they’re about to do, tailored to the channel they’re on, and the
area chosen by the person creating the alert.
This scopes the check for WebAuthn API to the page where we need
it, which will slightly reduce load times for other pages. Since
we want this script to execute ASAP, I've added a new block for
extra JS to run at the start of the body.
This hides the "Register" button and shows an error that's specific
to one of two ways a browser may not support WebAuthn:
- JavaScript is disabled (there's no possible fallback for this).
- WebAuthn API is not supported (e.g. on Internet Explorer).
We could add a similar check for the API in the JS code to handle
the button click, but hiding it seems like enough protection.
In order to avoid elements flashing when the page loads, this uses
a view macro to embed a script at the start of the body element,
which is the same approach used for the "js-enabled" class flag [1].
Tested with Chrome and IE 11.
[1]: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/blob/main/src/govuk/template.njk#L31
We need to re-initialise the webauthn_server module with original
app config, since this state is global across all tests. Since the
behaviour of the original fixture wasn't specific to verifying the
origin, I've renamed the fixture as part of making it global.
In order to keep the fixture simple, I've rewritten the test for
the webauthn_server module, so they don't touch the app fixture.
Previously we would raise a 500 error in a variety of cases:
- If a second key was being registered simultaneously (e.g. in a
separate tab), which means the registration state could be missing
after the first registration completes. That smells like an attack.
- If the server-side verification failed e.g. origin verification,
challenge verification, etc. The library seems to use 'ValueError'
for all such errors [1] (after auditing its 'raise' statements, and
excluding AttestationError [2], since we're not doing that).
- If a key is used that attempts to sign with an unsupported
algorithm. This would normally raise a NotImplemented error as part
of verifying attestation [3], but we don't do that, so we need to
verify the algorithm is supported by the library manually.
This adds error handling to return a 400 response and error message
in these cases, since the error is not unexpected (i.e. not a 500).
A 400 seems more appropriate than a 403, since in many cases it's
not clear if the request data is valid.
I've used CBOR for the transport encoding, to match the successful
request / response encoding. Note that the ordering of then/catch
matters in JS - we don't want to catch our own throws!
[1]: 142587b3e6/fido2/server.py (L255)
[2]: c42d9628a4/fido2/attestation/base.py (L39)
[3]: c42d9628a4/fido2/cose.py (L92)
This links up the `get_webauthn_credentials_for_user` and
`create_webauthn_credential_for_user` methods of the user api client to
notifications-api.
To send data to the API we need strings to be unicode, so we call
decode('utf-8') on base64 objects.
Co-authored-by: Leo Hemsted <leo.hemsted@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk>
Previously a bug in the first test would lead to a 'not implemented'
console error, which isn't the actual problem. This ensures alert()
is just a simple no-op, so we can concentrate on actual errors.
This follows the same approach as for window.fetch, using the Jest
before/afterAll() blocks to handle the idiosynchrosies of whether
the object/function is defined in the test environment.
This passes existing credentials in the server response, to allow
the browser to prevent re-registering the same key for the same
user. Registering the same key multiple times doesn't seem to be
an issue technically; the user has likely got their keys mixed up.
- Chrome says "you don't need to register it again".
- Safari exits with an InvalidStateError.
- Firefox exits with a DOMException.
This adds Yubico's FIDO2 library and two APIs for working with the
"navigator.credentials.create()" function in JavaScript. The GET
API uses the library to generate options for the "create()" function,
and the POST API decodes and verifies the resulting credential. While
the options and response are dict-like, CBOR is necessary to encode
some of the byte-level values, which can't be represented in JSON.
Much of the code here is based on the Yubico library example [1][2].
Implementation notes:
- There are definitely better ways to alert the user about failure, but
window.alert() will do for the time being. Using location.reload() is
also a bit jarring if the page scrolls, but not a major issue.
- Ideally we would use window.fetch() to do AJAX calls, but we don't
have a polyfill for this, and we use $.ajax() elsewhere [3]. We need
to do a few weird tricks [6] to stop jQuery trashing the data.
- The FIDO2 server doesn't serve web requests; it's just a "server" in
the sense of WebAuthn terminology. It lives in its own module, since it
needs to be initialised with the app / config.
- $.ajax returns a promise-like object. Although we've used ".fail()"
elsewhere [3], I couldn't find a stub object that supports it, so I've
gone for ".catch()", and used a Promise stub object in tests.
- WebAuthn only works over HTTPS, but there's an exception for "localhost"
[4]. However, the library is a bit too strict [5], so we have to disable
origin verification to avoid needing HTTPS for dev work.
[1]: c42d9628a4/examples/server/server.py
[2]: c42d9628a4/examples/server/static/register.html
[3]: 91453d3639/app/assets/javascripts/updateContent.js (L33)
[4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55971593/navigator-credentials-is-null-on-local-server
[5]: c42d9628a4/fido2/rpid.py (L69)
[6]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12394622/does-jquery-ajax-or-load-allow-for-responsetype-arraybuffer
When showing what auth type user uses to sign in, add a text
for users with webauthn.
On password change or sign in, throw not implemented error
if user uses webauthn auth.
Adding ‘all networks’ whenever we mention the using the test channel
without a restriction to a single network should help reinforce that
this sends real alerts.
Only the test channel has the option to isolate messages to one network.
This commits makes the choices less confusing by only showing the
network choice to those who have selected the test channel.
We have been asked to support the government channel so that:
- it can be tested
- the option to use it is available for the most severe of emergencies,
where the public’s choice to opt-out is outweighed by the widespread
risk to life
It feels quite dangerous that it’s just one click to make an emergency
alerts service live.
This commit adds a confirmation step which explains the consequences of
what you’re about to do.
