Microsoft Edge Always Returns 401 Not Authorised Invalid Token

[andystables]

NOTE: Please test in a least two browsers (i.e. Chrome and Firefox). This helps with diagnosing problems quicker.

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• [ x] I have read the README entirely
• [x ] I have verified in the issues that my problem hasn't already been resolved

Setup

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• Operating System: Windows
• PHP Version: 7.3
• web-push-php Version: 5.2

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• [x ] curl
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• [ ] Chrome
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Problem

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When pushing to subscription endpoint in Edge, a 401 error is always returned with the WWW-Authenticate header containing 'bearer error="invalid_request",error_description="Invalid token".

I think this may be because Microsoft Push Notification Service requires a (Bearer) Access Token to be passed in the Authorisation header as explained in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/apps/hh868206(v%3dwin.10).

Does this library have a facility to pass the bearer token to Microsoft Endpoints? If so, please could the README be updated to provide example of how to make a push to Microsoft Push Service.

If not is it possible to extend the library to allow custom HTTP headers to be inserted into the post to the notification endpoints?

Expected

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Push notification to be sent to device.

Features Used

• [x ] VAPID Support
• [x ] GCM API Key
• [x ] Sending with Payload

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[appzer]

same issue > Chrome, Firefox and Opera works but not Microsoft Edge 44.18362.449.0 / Microsoft EdgeHTML 18.18362

I got the following response:

[x] Message failed to sent for subscription https://am3p.notify.windows.com/w/?token=........
Client error: `POST https://am3p.notify.windows.com/w/?token=........`
resulted in a `401 Unauthorized` response

How to fix the issue

[gauravag09]

Same issue .... Works fine on Mozilla, Chrome. On Microsoft always get 401 UnAuthorised response.

[llioorkd]

Hello? anything?

[Korzhukov]

My Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 2004 works fine, but not on 1607 (LTSB). Receive 401 all the time. At the same time Microsoft's test page ( https://webpushdemo.azurewebsites.net/ ) works fine on both versions of Windows.

[noesnaterse]

Also a 401 all the time, the webpushdemo works. Chrome and firefox also work, it's just Edge that doesn't.

Edge version: 44.19041.1.0 EdgeHTML version: 18.19041 Windows 10 version: 19041.264

[mokraemer]

see bug #278 I can confirm changing anything on the token of the endpoint (url encoding) will let the request fail. E.g. in our case "%2b" was decoded to "+" but not encoded again. "%2f" was translated to "%2F"; so make sure to base64 encode the endpoint, write it to the database as it is and use it.

[appzer]

i can confirm, replacing "+" to "%2b" works

[andystables]

God bless you mokraemer. Replacing '+' with '%2b' works!!!

[trailsnail]

Hi together,

I still don't understand: If I allow the browser notifications in edge, I receive a subscription endpoint in following format direct from the browser into my backend and store it to database:

https://wns2-par02p.notify.windows.com/w/?token=BQYAAACnq6s4RQFlGHbZdME3cx03PENrEhpbmIqJUsfd4II9rHsvqUGR86doPTU1KiZfds%2fQu8jx9cijQjI6e8tyZqtR%2bcbcZVnHu%2fZWhMU1c35XCeBGTXZYUvUdwQ1O8a0kBIyPolLayZccLZIVZV7b6hs5zgHPuU0pYKpw4vJy2QoTG0WmjD8bIsk6oc5M46cATwiCz

The token looks already url-encoded.

But if I reuse it exactly as it is, I run into 401 error bearer error invalid token. So what can I do? Can anybody help?

[mokraemer]

Make sure to base64 encode the string and decode it just before sending! Some libs make an url_decode and reencode the token, so %2f becomes %2F which is correct, but MS refuses if the token does not match byte by byte. You should check your request with the debugging console.

[trailsnail]

Make sure to base64 encode the string

While storing the subscription or right before sending a notification?

I ask, because no matter how I do it: the request contains after decoding already the variant I stored into database with subscription

The encode and decode results in no success ...

[trailsnail]

Damn, one problem solved: the endpoint length is more than 255 chars...

Ok... now the encoding problem ... I am still investigating 😆

Finally the message was created ... token length in database was the problem.

Now I have to find out, why message does not appear in Edge => Windows 11 Notfiy Settings 🤣 Now all works as expected - no encoding, no decoding, only the database field was too short

[louieje-g]

Hello @mokraemer, I am having the same issue on Edge.

I have this endpoint: https://wns2-bl2p.notify.windows.com/w/?token=BQYAAAAAgYrxLzjPS7Xx2t9XoqmGVxPKRhhhwinm6Fe8Bkg%2fcpadDTvEh8X9HC3FxsIW2KLCllCY8DlvFLuv45%2b4MZyRZ9IBbmE%2fslIuv3oP%2fELOQ%2f6j7rexCTjXLfsGOsjZG8rpyngxm4ZUuFwF%2bhxBbm9P1%2fj5vTxp%2b8H2dI1StYQLODdqI%2bwVIb86hPO

and after decoding it, became like this: https://wns2-bl2p.notify.windows.com/w/?token=BQYAAAAAgYrxLzjPS7Xx2t9XoqmGVxPKRhhhwinm6Fe8Bkg/cpadDTvEh8X9HC3FxsIW2KLCllCY8DlvFLuv45+4MZyRZ9IBbmE/slIuv3oP/ELOQ/6j7rexCTjXLfsGOsjZG8rpyngxm4ZUuFwF+hxBbm9P1/j5vTxp+8H2dI1StYQLODdqI+wVIb86hPO

But I'm still getting Received unexpected response code: 401.

Am I doing something wrong here?

[trailsnail]

But I'm still getting Received unexpected response code: 401.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Shortly before end of work, I quickly looked at our code: I also use my endpoint urls plain urlencoded as I originally received them, so with "%" and so. .../?token=BQYAAACHbfSJe%2fmCFNlN3OWqm%2bwt4RCsqm7IL3hA8DWTyXhKB55ceXAak4QHQdzxeW5Br0e7LnkVEpZy%2fkDSGn%2fM7L6uA8V%2fn7x3%2b4pcfDjXsFZL8zAH80vTiJHPqKRsjpzG5sra5dVLMBwLOnjPIzQ%2f2%2fxqKpMdx2efVSkhoVzp0Vu%2flpz4qebU691%2flc7e5gcCYucoOn36Juaa6yk%2flpaltWIO5PiKsJh5JbETOwB%2bR0D0jnVgHEYzDqCHWOTJX44hcqTUXGVy8Q%2bZQQrukJKLZrBA7q...

And this works fine with this code and without any encoding/decoding on our side

/**
     * @param list<Subscription> $subscriptions
     */
    private function sendNotifications(array $subscriptions): void
    {
        $auth = [
            'VAPID' => [
                'subject' => 'YOUR SUBJECT',
                'publicKey' => WEBPUSH_VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY,
                'privateKey' => WEBPUSH_VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY,
            ],
        ];

        $webPush = new \Minishlink\WebPush\WebPush($auth);

        foreach ($this->createNotfications($subscriptions) as $notification) {
            $webPush->queueNotification(
                $notification['subscription'],
                $notification['payload'],
            );
        }

        foreach ($webPush->flush() as $report) {
            $endpoint = $report->getRequest()->getUri()->__toString();

            if (!$report->isSuccess()) {
                (new SubscriptionRepository())->deleteSubscription($endpoint);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param list<Subscription> $storedSubscriptions
     *
     * @return list<array{subscription: \Minishlink\WebPush\Subscription, payload: string}>
     */
    private function createNotfications(array $storedSubscriptions): array
    {
        $notifications = [];
        foreach ($storedSubscriptions as $storedSubscription) {
            $notifications[] = [
                'subscription' => \Minishlink\WebPush\Subscription::create([
                    'endpoint' => $storedSubscription->endpoint,
                    'publicKey' => $storedSubscription->publicKey,
                    'authToken' => $storedSubscription->authToken,
                    'contentEncoding' => $storedSubscription->contentEncoding,
                ]),
                'payload' => $this->getPayload(),
            ];
        }

        return $notifications;
    }

At first I thought I was having encoding problems as well. But the problem was that I didn't have the complete endpoint stored in the DB, the field was too short. Because of the wrong endpoint I also got 401

[louieje-g]

@trailsnail You're actually right, it was the column length on the DB that was too short 😅 . Sorry I didn't noticed your previous comment regarding that. Thank you so much, you saved my life 😁.

[ndebarnot]

I had the exact same issue and realized thanks to this discussion that my DB field was too short as well 😅