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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.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$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:

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();
$sbJsonKeys = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $http->QuickGetSb("https://cognito-idp.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/us-east-2_******/.well-known/jwks.json",$sbJsonKeys);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$jsonKeys = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$jsonKeys->LoadSb($sbJsonKeys);
$jsonKeys->put_EmitCompact(0);
print $jsonKeys->emit() . "\r\n";

#  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.
$jsonKey1 = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$jsonKeys->ObjectOf2("keys[0]",$jsonKey1);

$pubKey1 = chilkat::CkPublicKey->new();
$success = $pubKey1->LoadFromString($jsonKey1->emit());
if ($success == 0) {
    print $pubKey1->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Success" . "\r\n";

$jwt = chilkat::CkJwt->new();

#  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);
print "verified: " . $sigVerified . "\r\n";

#  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);
print "time constraints valid: " . $bTimeValid . "\r\n";

#  Now let's recover the original claims JSON (the payload).
$payload = $jwt->getPayload($token);
#  The payload will likely be in compact form:
print $payload . "\r\n";

#  We can format for human viewing by loading it into Chilkat's JSON object
#  and emit.
$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$success = $json->Load($payload);
$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";

#  We can recover the original JOSE header in the same way:
$joseHeader = $jwt->getHeader($token);
#  The payload will likely be in compact form:
print $joseHeader . "\r\n";

#  We can format for human viewing by loading it into Chilkat's JSON object
#  and emit.
$success = $json->Load($joseHeader);
$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";