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Lucie GermainandClaude Opus 5 9cf4fa8bf5 [web] gracefully handle failed oauth token exchange for reference managers (#36377)
* [web] gracefully handle failed oauth token exchange for reference managers

Mendeley/ReadCube redirect back to /:ref_provider/oauth/token-exchange with
`error` and `error_description` instead of `code` when a user declines consent.
completeAuth forwarded the whole query string on to third-party-references,
whose strict zod schema (d8c1679bb08) accepts only oauth_token, oauth_verifier
and code, so the exchange failed and the user got a 500.

The same forwarding also sent `state` on every callback, success or failure.
`state` is web's own CSRF token and is never read by third-party-references, so
it tripped the log-only schema on every single token exchange, and would have
broken linking outright under REQ_VALIDATION_MODE=enforce.

Forward only the credentials the exchange needs, and show a translated
notification in the Reference managers section rather than erroring. Validate
ref_provider against the known providers so the provider name can be
interpolated into the message without reflecting a URL segment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* [web] fix providerName argument and validate before deriving refProvider

Address Copilot review on #36377:

- The token-exchange failure handler passed `false` positionally into the
  `providerName` slot of _redirectWithLinkingError, so a failed exchange would
  have rendered "your false account". Pass providerName and an explicit false.
- _getRefProviderBackendKey(req) ran before parseReq, so refProvider was derived
  from raw, unvalidated req.params. Parse first and derive from the validated
  params via _toRefProviderBackendKey; _getRefProviderBackendKey now delegates
  to it so the other handlers are unchanged.

The completeAuth tests kept their assertions inside ctx.res.callback without
awaiting the controller, so the callback fired after the test had already
returned and the assertions were never enforced — which is why the suite was
green with the providerName bug in it. Await the controller and assert inline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* [web] add logOnly to the completeAuth schema and guard the provider lookup

logOnly returns the raw input on a schema failure, so ref_provider can be an
arbitrary URL segment. Check it against the display-name table rather than
trusting the schema: unknown providers 404 in both validation modes, and
providerName is guaranteed non-null for the rest of the handler.

Also covers the schema half under REQ_VALIDATION_MODE=enforce, so dropping
ref_provider from completeAuthSchema fails a test rather than passing unnoticed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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overleaf/web

overleaf/web is the front-end web service of the open-source web-based collaborative LaTeX editor, Overleaf. It serves all the HTML pages, CSS and javascript to the client. overleaf/web also contains a lot of logic around creating and editing projects, and account management.

The rest of the Overleaf stack, along with information about contributing can be found in the overleaf/overleaf repository.

Running the app

The app runs natively using yarn and Node on the local system:

$ yarn install
$ yarn run start

Running Tests

To run all tests run:

make test

To run both unit and acceptance tests for a module run:

make test_module MODULE=saas-authentication

Unit Tests

The test suites run in Docker.

Unit tests can be run in the test_unit container defined in docker-compose.tests.yml.

The makefile contains a short cut to run these:

make test_unit

During development it is often useful to only run a subset of tests, which can be configured with arguments to the mocha CLI:

make test_unit TEST_NAME_PATTERN='AuthorizationManager'

To run only the unit tests for a single module do:

make test_unit_module MODULE=saas-authentication

Module tests can also use a TEST_NAME_PATTERN argument:

make test_unit_module MODULE=saas-authentication TEST_NAME_PATTERN=SSO

Acceptance Tests

Acceptance tests are run against a live service, which runs in the acceptance_test container defined in docker-compose.tests.yml.

To run the tests out-of-the-box, the makefile defines:

make test_acceptance

However, during development it is often useful to leave the service running for rapid iteration on the acceptance tests. This can be done with:

make test_acceptance_app_start_service
make test_acceptance_app_run # Run as many times as needed during development
make test_acceptance_app_stop_service

make test_acceptance just runs these three commands in sequence and then runs make test_acceptance_modules which performs the tests for each module in the modules directory. (Note that there is not currently an equivalent to the -start / -run x n / -stop series for modules.)

During development it is often useful to only run a subset of tests, which can be configured with arguments to the mocha CLI:

make test_acceptance_run TEST_NAME_PATTERN='AuthorizationManager'

To run only the acceptance tests for a single module do:

make test_acceptance_module MODULE=saas-authentication

Module tests can also use a TEST_NAME_PATTERN argument:

make test_acceptance_module MODULE=saas-authentication TEST_NAME_PATTERN=SSO

Routes

Run bin/routes to print out all routes in the project.

License and Credits

This project is licensed under the AGPLv3 license

Stylesheets

Overleaf is based on Bootstrap, which is licensed under the MIT license. All modifications (*.less files in public/stylesheets) are also licensed under the MIT license.

Artwork

Silk icon set 1.3

We gratefully acknowledge Mark James for releasing his Silk icon set under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. Some of these icons are used within Overleaf inside the public/img/silk and public/brand/icons directories.

IconShock icons

We gratefully acknowledge IconShock for use of the icons in the public/img/iconshock directory found via findicons.com