Answer product-owner round 1: 0 🔴, 2 🟡 (0 misread); the submit sends a same-origin Referer, Kratos' redirect to this host keeps the chosen locale

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ at boot. Entries start at 0.3.0.
 
 ### A verification or recovery code pasted with whitespace around it is accepted
 
-The code field on the verification and recovery pages takes a code with spaces or tabs around it, as
-a paste from an email often brings. Before, the browser refused it. Those two forms now post to
-Plainpages, which trims the code and passes the form on to Kratos at `KRATOS_PUBLIC_URL`.
+The code field on the verification and recovery pages takes a code with spaces or tabs around it.
+Pasting a code from an email often adds them, and before, the browser refused the code. Those two
+forms now post to Plainpages, which trims the code and passes the form on to Kratos at
+`KRATOS_PUBLIC_URL`. A visitor who picked a language now keeps it through both flows.
 
 ### A filter shows its selected and focused choice in browsers without `:has()`
 

src/auth/kratos-public.ts

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export interface UiNode {
 }
 
 export interface FlowUi {
-  action: string; // absolute Kratos URL the browser POSTs the form to (Kratos owns its CSRF)
+  action: string; // absolute Kratos URL the form submits to
   messages?: UiText[];
   method: string;
   nodes: UiNode[];
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ export function createKratosPublic(config: { baseUrl: string; fetchImpl?: typeof
     async submitFlow(type, flowId, opts) {
       const url = new URL(`${base}/self-service/${type}`);
       url.searchParams.set("flow", flowId);
-      // Asked for HTML, Kratos answers with the redirects a browser gets, so every outcome stays Kratos'.
-      // Its nosurf wants a Referer, absent here, only over https: valid while KRATOS_PUBLIC_URL is http.
-      const h = { ...headers(opts.cookie), accept: "text/html", "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" };
+      // Asked for HTML, Kratos answers with the redirect a browser posting to it would get. Its CSRF
+      // check demands a same-origin Referer on an https request, and this server-side POST has none.
+      const h = { ...headers(opts.cookie), accept: "text/html", "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", referer: `${base}/` };
       const res = await http(url, { body: opts.body, headers: h, method: "POST", redirect: "manual" });
       if (res.status >= 500) throw new KratosError(`Kratos submit ${type} flow failed (${res.status})`, res.status, await res.text());
       await res.body?.cancel();

src/auth/routes.ts

@@ -114,10 +114,11 @@ function flowPage(kratos: KratosPublic, flowType: FlowType, secureCookies: boole
   };
 }
 
-// A code flow's POST (flow-view.ts → CODE_FLOWS): trim the pasted one-time code, which Kratos would
-// refuse with its surrounding whitespace, and relay the rest to Kratos and its redirect back. Kratos'
-// own csrf_token field guards the POST, so the host checks no token of its own.
-function codeFlowSubmit(kratos: KratosPublic, flowType: FlowType): BuiltinRoute["handler"] {
+// A code flow's POST (flow-view.ts → CODE_FLOWS). Trims the pasted one-time code, since Kratos
+// refuses one with whitespace around it, then passes the form on to Kratos and sends the browser
+// where Kratos redirects. Kratos' csrf_token field guards the POST, so the host's own CSRF token
+// isn't checked here.
+function codeFlowSubmit(kratos: KratosPublic, flowType: FlowType, secureCookies: boolean): BuiltinRoute["handler"] {
   return async (ctx: RequestContext): Promise<RouteResult> => {
     const pathname = ctx.url.pathname;
     const flowId = ctx.url.searchParams.get("flow");
@@ -133,7 +134,10 @@ function codeFlowSubmit(kratos: KratosPublic, flowType: FlowType): BuiltinRoute[
       return flowFailure(err, ctx, flowType);
     }
     if (submitted.setCookie.length) ctx.res.appendHeader("set-cookie", submitted.setCookie);
-    return { redirect: submitted.location ?? `${pathname}?flow=${encodeURIComponent(flowId)}` };
+    // Kratos names our own pages by absolute URL; made host-relative, the redirect keeps a chosen locale.
+    const own = selfOrigin(ctx, secureCookies);
+    const location = submitted.location?.startsWith(`${own}/`) ? submitted.location.slice(own.length) : submitted.location;
+    return { redirect: location ?? `${pathname}?flow=${encodeURIComponent(flowId)}` };
   };
 }
 
@@ -273,7 +277,7 @@ export function buildAuthRoutes({ hydra, keto, kratos, kratosAdmin, menu, secure
   if (kratos) {
     for (const [path, flowType] of Object.entries(AUTH_FLOWS)) {
       routes.push({ handler: flowPage(kratos, flowType, secureCookies), method: "GET", path, public: true });
-      if (CODE_FLOWS.has(flowType)) routes.push({ handler: codeFlowSubmit(kratos, flowType), method: "POST", path, public: true });
+      if (CODE_FLOWS.has(flowType)) routes.push({ handler: codeFlowSubmit(kratos, flowType, secureCookies), method: "POST", path, public: true });
     }
     routes.push({ handler: logout(kratos, secureCookies), method: "POST", path: "/logout", public: true });
   }

src/http/app-auth.test.ts

@@ -389,9 +389,6 @@ test("OAuth2 challenge endpoints degrade identically: stale Hydra 4xx → 400, o
   }
 });
 
-
-// The code flows post to the host, which trims the code (a pasted one often carries whitespace that
-// Kratos would refuse) and relays the rest of the browser's POST to Kratos verbatim.
 test("code-flow POST: the host trims the code, relays the POST to Kratos and Kratos' redirect + cookies back", async (t) => {
   const calls: { body: string; cookie: string | undefined; flowId: string; type: FlowType }[] = [];
   let answer: () => Promise<FlowSubmission> = async () =>
@@ -423,6 +420,10 @@ test("code-flow POST: the host trims the code, relays the POST to Kratos and Kra
   assert.equal(noFlow.headers.get("location"), "/recovery");
   assert.equal(calls.length, 2);
 
+  // Kratos' absolute redirect to this host becomes host-relative, so it keeps the chosen locale.
+  answer = async () => ({ location: `${url}/settings?flow=s1`, setCookie: [], status: 303 });
+  assert.equal((await post("/recovery?flow=f1&locale=en-US", "code=1")).headers.get("location"), "/settings?flow=s1&locale=en-US");
+
   // Kratos answered without a redirect → back to the flow, whose page shows its state.
   answer = async () => ({ location: null, setCookie: [], status: 400 });
   assert.equal((await post("/recovery?flow=f1", "code=1")).headers.get("location"), "/recovery?flow=f1");
@@ -433,6 +434,6 @@ test("code-flow POST: the host trims the code, relays the POST to Kratos and Kra
   answer = async () => { throw new TypeError("fetch failed"); };
   assert.equal((await post("/recovery?flow=f1", "code=1")).status, 503);
 
-  // Sign-in still posts straight to Kratos: the host takes no POST there.
+  // Sign-in posts straight to Kratos, so the host has no POST /login.
   assert.notEqual((await post("/login?flow=f1", "x=1")).status, 303);
 });