Role based redirects does not work as intended in dev mode

[nekdolan]

Describe the bug

When you make a role based rewrite (not redirect) on dev mode or live dev mode the rewrite to the page returns 404. Works correctly on production. https://answers.netlify.com/t/role-based-redirects-does-not-work-as-intended-in-dev-mode/50667

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Make a configuration like the one you see below.

[[redirects]]
  from = "/*"
  to = "/pro/:splat"
  status = 200
  conditions = {Role = ["pro"]}

Put a test.html file in /pro . Login as user with role set to "pro" Try to access /pro/test.html at /test.html

Configuration

[build]
  publish = "dist"
  functions = "functions"
[dev]
  publish = "dist"
  functions = "functions"
[functions]
  node_bundler = "esbuild"
[[redirects]]
  from = "/pro/*"
  to = "/:splat"
  force = true
  status = 302
[[redirects]]
  from = "/free/*"
  to = "/:splat"
  force = true
  status = 302
[[redirects]]
  from = "/*"
  to = "/pro/:splat"
  status = 200
  conditions = {Role = ["pro"]}
[[redirects]]
  from = "/*"
  to = "/free/:splat"
  status = 200

System:
    OS: Linux 5.16 Fedora Linux 35 (Workstation Edition)
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz
    Memory: 150.58 MB / 15.27 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.1.8 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.6.2 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.6.2/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.11 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.6.2/bin/yarn
    npm: 7.20.3 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.6.2/bin/npm
  npmGlobalPackages:
    netlify-cli: 8.13.2

Expected behavior

The browser should open test.html

[mirisuzanne]

I'm also having this issue, with the more basic setup proposed in examples (although none of the docs show how to do this in toml, only in a redirects file). My config:

[[redirects]]
from = "/admin/*"
force = true
status = 200
conditions = {Role = ["admin"]}

[[redirects]]
from = "/admin/*"
to = "/login/"
force = true
status = 401

Seems to work in production, but when I run netlify dev locally, I get sent to login no matter what my logged-in/role status. For now, I just have to delete the redirects locally for development, and make sure I remember not to commit that change.

[tinfoil-knight]

@mirisuzanne @nekdolan Is the repository you were working on public? If yes, could you provide a link to it so I can reproduce this issue?

[mirisuzanne]

The repo is public (https://github.com/mirisuzanne/grapefruitlab) but relies heavily on APIs with private access keys. Not sure if that will work for you or not.

[nekdolan]

@tinfoil-knight sorry no, but it was easy to reproduce.

[tinfoil-knight]

Hey folks, I followed up internally & fixing this is going to take a while.

Suggested Workaround for now:

Create a function as described in https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/01/31/restrict-access-to-your-sites-with-role-based-redirects/ so that http cookies are set properly which will make role based redirects functional on localhost too.

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Note for Contributors: The Netlify Identity service (specifically the identity/token endpoint doesn’t respond with the set-cookie header for localhost (unexpected) but does so on production.

The cookie with nf_jwt is necessary for role based redirects to work.