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Classic ASP
Verify a JWT Created by the Amazon Cognito Service
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Demonstrates how to verify a JWT created by the Amazon Cognito Service.Chilkat Classic ASP Downloads
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success = 0
' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
' The public keys for this example are at https://cognito-idp.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/us-east-2_******/.well-known/jwks.json
' Let's get them:
set http = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")
set sbJsonKeys = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = http.QuickGetSb("https://cognito-idp.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/us-east-2_******/.well-known/jwks.json",sbJsonKeys)
If (success = 0) Then
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( http.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
set jsonKeys = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonKeys.LoadSb(sbJsonKeys)
jsonKeys.EmitCompact = 0
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( jsonKeys.Emit()) & "</pre>"
' Here are the keys:
' {
' "keys": [
' {
' "alg": "RS256",
' "e": "AQAB",
' "kid": "1A/L5Fsb2EsEwxy5E0cmCMS1BnMe6Jl6NXiMig4iNwU=",
' "kty": "RSA",
' "n": "y0w7BJrIJYi ... jKG27z2P3OKw",
' "use": "sig"
' },
' {
' "alg": "RS256",
' "e": "AQAB",
' "kid": "mos6VTJnvDwurY3ghJg6IAPUq+dMwl6CL/iThzJOkzg=",
' "kty": "RSA",
' "n": "qbIEH-7tg6yrT ... 3Fj94ooTd0w",
' "use": "sig"
' }
' ]
' }
' Try the 1st key.
set jsonKey1 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonKeys.ObjectOf2("keys[0]",jsonKey1)
set pubKey1 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.PublicKey")
success = pubKey1.LoadFromString(jsonKey1.Emit())
If (success = 0) Then
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pubKey1.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success") & "</pre>"
set jwt = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Jwt")
' I did not include the an actual AWS Cognito token here because our test sample used customer-provided data..
token = "eyJ..asXg"
' First verify the signature.
sigVerified = jwt.VerifyJwtPk(token,pubKey1)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "verified: " & sigVerified) & "</pre>"
' Let's see if the time constraints, if any, are valid.
' The above JWT was created on the afternoon of 16-May-2016, with an expiration of 1 hour.
' If the current system time is before the "nbf" time, or after the "exp" time,
' then IsTimeValid will return false/0.
' Also, we'll allow a leeway of 60 seconds to account for any clock skew.
' Note: If the token has no "nbf" or "exp" claim fields, then IsTimeValid is always true.
leeway = 60
bTimeValid = jwt.IsTimeValid(token,leeway)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "time constraints valid: " & bTimeValid) & "</pre>"
' Now let's recover the original claims JSON (the payload).
payload = jwt.GetPayload(token)
' The payload will likely be in compact form:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( payload) & "</pre>"
' We can format for human viewing by loading it into Chilkat's JSON object
' and emit.
set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.Load(payload)
json.EmitCompact = 0
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.Emit()) & "</pre>"
' We can recover the original JOSE header in the same way:
joseHeader = jwt.GetHeader(token)
' The payload will likely be in compact form:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( joseHeader) & "</pre>"
' We can format for human viewing by loading it into Chilkat's JSON object
' and emit.
success = json.Load(joseHeader)
json.EmitCompact = 0
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.Emit()) & "</pre>"
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