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FWIW I'm very much in favour of having a single host API - I was
looking at doing that in Apache for TripleO deployments anyway, due to
the better SSL deployment characteristics. We then would register the
actual single host endpoint in publicURL.

How would that work for multiple regions with javascript - can you
switch hosts fairly easily ?

-Rob

On 11 September 2014 19:15, Richard Jones <r1chardj0n3s at gmail.com> wrote:
> [This is Horizon-related but affects every service in OpenStack, hence no
> filter in the subject]
>
> I would like for OpenStack to support browser-based Javascript API clients.
> Currently this is not possible because of cross-origin resource blocking in
> Javascript clients - that is, given some Javascript hosted on
> "https://horizon.company.com/" you cannot, for example, call from that
> Javascript code to an API on "https://apis.company.com:5000/v2.0/tokens" to
> authenticate with Keystone.
>
> There are three solutions to this problem:
>
> 1. the Horizon solution, in which those APIs are proxied by a very thick
>    layer of additional Python API, plus some Python view code with some
>    Javascript on the top only calling the Horizon view code,
> 2. add CORS support to all the OpenStack APIs though a new WSGI middleware
>    (for example oslo.middleware.cors) and configured into each of the API
>    services individually since they all exist on different "origin"
>    host:port combinations, or
> 3. a new web service that proxies all the APIs and serves the static
>    Javascript (etc) content from the one origin (host). APIs are then served
>    from new URL roots "/name/" where the name is from the serviceCatalog
>    entry. Static content can be served from "/static/". The serviceCatalog
> from
>    keystone will be rewritten on the fly to point the API publicURLs at the
>    new service. Requests are no longer cross-origin.
>
> I have implemented options 2 and 3 as an exercise to see how horrid each one
> is.
>
>
> == CORS Middleware ==
>
> For those wanting a bit of background, I have written up a spec for oslo
> that
> talks about how this could work: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/119485/
>
> The middleware option results in a reasonably nice bit of middleware. It's
> short and relatively easy to test. The big problem with it comes in
> configuring it in all the APIs. The configuration for the middleware takes
> two forms:
>
> 1. hooking oslo.middleware.cors into the WSGI pipeline (there's more than
>    one in each API),
> 2. adding the CORS configuration itself for the middleware in the API's main
>    configuration file (eg. keystone.conf or nova.conf).
>
> So for each service, that's two configuration files *and* the kicker is that
> the paste configuration file is non-trivially different in almost every
> case.
>
> That's a lot of work, and confusing for deployers. Configuration management
> tools can ease *some* of this burden (the *.conf files) but those paste
> files
> are a bit of a mess :(
>
> Once the config change is in place, it works (well, except for an issue I
> ran
> into relating to oslo.middleware.sizelimit which I'll go into in another
> place).
>
> The implementation hasn't been pushed up for review as I'm not sure it
> should
> be. I can do this if people wish me to.
>
>
> == New Single-Point API Service ==
>
> Actually, this is not horrid in any way - unless that publicURL rewriting
> gives you the heebie-jeebies.
>
> It works, and offers us some nice additional features like being able to
> host
> the service behind SSL without needing to get a bazillion certificates. And
> maybe load balancing. And maybe API access filtering.
>
> I note that https://openrepose.org already exists to be *something* like
> this, but it's not *precisely* what I'm proposing. Also Java euwww ;)
>
>
> So, I propose that the idea of CORS-in-all-the-things as an idea be
> put aside as unworkable.
>
> I intend to pursue the single-point API service that I have described as a
> way of moving forward in prototyping a pure-Javascript OpenStack Dashboard.
>
>
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