Token authentification via proxy socket

Trying to set up a nodejs/npm registry server with this GitHub - verdaccio/verdaccio: 📦🔐 A lightweight Node.js private proxy registry

It all works fine served direct on local machine without caddy. It uses a token (JWT?) to authenticate through a socket to server for allowing publishing.

Now I set up another instance on my server and here is my caddy file entry.

https://npm.kebler.net {
       import wildcard_cert
       proxy / localhost:4873 {
        websocket
        transparent
        }
       }

I had to add the websocket and transparent to get the webpage to come up and cli access to function.
It works. I can “add user” via command line and it gives me a token that is read when any command line publishing is done.

Only the authentication fails when run through Caddy.

Is there something else I need in my caddy entry? Do I need to use another plugin? JWT?
Obviously the proxy is messing up the authentication handshake. I just don’t know how to remedy that.

here is log of communication with server showing the authentication failing.

verbose mapToRegistry no registry URL found in name for scope @uci
22 silly mapToRegistry using default registry
23 silly mapToRegistry registry https://npm.kebler.net/
24 silly mapToRegistry data { type: 'tag',
24 silly mapToRegistry   registry: true,
24 silly mapToRegistry   where: undefined,
24 silly mapToRegistry   raw: '@uci/base',
24 silly mapToRegistry   name: '@uci/base',
24 silly mapToRegistry   escapedName: '@uci%2fbase',
24 silly mapToRegistry   scope: '@uci',
24 silly mapToRegistry   rawSpec: '',
24 silly mapToRegistry   saveSpec: null,
24 silly mapToRegistry   fetchSpec: 'latest',
24 silly mapToRegistry   gitRange: undefined,
24 silly mapToRegistry   gitCommittish: undefined,
24 silly mapToRegistry   hosted: undefined }
25 silly mapToRegistry uri https://npm.kebler.net/@uci%2fbase
26 verbose publish registryBase https://npm.kebler.net/
27 silly publish uploading /tmp/npm-22521-9940c208/tmp/fromDir-68e1f29c/package.tgz
28 verbose request uri https://npm.kebler.net/@uci%2fbase
29 verbose request sending authorization for write operation
30 info attempt registry request try #1 at 10:06:11 PM
31 verbose request using bearer token for auth
32 verbose request id b8d3970ee1e42fc6
33 http request PUT https://npm.kebler.net/@uci%2fbase
34 http 401 https://npm.kebler.net/@uci%2fbase
35 verbose headers { 'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
35 verbose headers   'content-length': '69',
35 verbose headers   'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
35 verbose headers   date: 'Wed, 23 Jan 2019 06:06:11 GMT',
35 verbose headers   etag: 'W/"45-NzrHU3aghxa8hgBb908u5ufMZ8s"',
35 verbose headers   server: 'Caddy',
35 verbose headers   vary: 'Accept-Encoding',
35 verbose headers   'www-authenticate': 'Basic, Bearer',
35 verbose headers   'x-powered-by': 'verdaccio/3.10.2',
35 verbose headers   'x-status-cat': 'http://flic.kr/p/aV6jwe' }
36 error publish Failed PUT 401
37 verbose stack Error: authorization required to publish package @uci/base : @uci/base
37 verbose stack     at makeError (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:329:12)
37 verbose stack     at RegClient.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:317:14)
37 verbose stack     at Request._callback (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:216:14)
37 verbose stack     at Request.self.callback (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/request.js:185:22)
37 verbose stack     at Request.emit (events.js:188:13)
37 verbose stack     at Request.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/request.js:1161:10)
37 verbose stack     at Request.emit (events.js:188:13)
37 verbose stack     at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/request.js:1083:12)
37 verbose stack     at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:276:13)
37 verbose stack     at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:193:15)
37 verbose stack     at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1129:12)
37 verbose stack     at process.internalTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:72:19)
38 verbose statusCode 401
39 verbose pkgid @uci/base

here is an example token it generated. Can one tell by length maybe if it looks like a JWT?
_authToken=“di02xNW4GvAddrgRSLmWMJOgzZb6WqbMSzgX2jALEBc=”

I don’t think it’s a JWT. If I recall correctly, JWTs have three dot-delimited parts (i.e. 111111.222222.333333). It’s probably just a bearer token, I don’t think it likely that the distinction of type is important.

Can you show us what a log of your server demonstrating proper authentication handling looks like?

All good. Not caddy issue. I had it set right.

I did have the tell the server in it’s config to specifically listen to

0.0.0.0: 4873

that’s probably always the first thing to try. Have server listen at 0.0.0.0 and maybe use
proxy / 0.0.0.0:4873 {
instead of localhost when server is on same machine as caddy.

0.0.0.0 typically means any IP address - so if it is available at localhost but doesn’t like that hostname, maybe you could try proxy to 127.0.0.1.

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