Firefox-ios: FXIOS-408 ⁃ Custom Sync Token Server: Invalid OAuth parameter

[marank]

Steps to reproduce

1. Enter a custom Sync Token Server in Advanced Sync Settings
2. Try to log in to Sync

Expected behavior

Successfull login

Actual behavior

There's no login screen appearing, instead I get the error message
Invalid OAuth parameter: redirect_uri

Device & build information

• Device: iPhone 11 Pro
• Build version: 25.0 (17803)
  

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[mmnaseri]

How is this a P3? This feature is basically broken, meaning I cannot have my data synced to my phone. That's the most important vector of my day-to-day use and it is completely broken.

[Balooforever]

+1, broken after FF 25 ...

[mmnaseri]

This was originally tracked in #5006, and was marked as fixed. I don't see this working anymore. I think that this is a regression past dcd1ff71619922aafbf9547e99ca6f65a563bb52. I will also cross-post in the other bug so that we get more traction and visibility to the people who originally reported and followed up on that issue.

[sprangen]

+1 still broken in FF27...

[andromedi4]

+1 still broken FF28 It’s very sad story...

[nook24]

Three month passed without a response from Mozilla. I think due to the latest budget cuts we never will get a fix for this. So here we are 2020 and we have to send emails to ourselves to avoid Google Chrome.

[drixter]

I think that's finally is working, first one update sync server to new one, because there is a new version, then in firefox use custom setting, provide your own syncserver address but for the rest provide proper firefox ones, seems to be working, I didn't check it very deep but looks promising.

[Thlb]

@drixter Hi! Can you make a screenshot of the settings you set to get it working?

I’ve tried but I still have the invalid Oauth parameter error.

[nook24]

@drixter Which Sync server are you using? I'm still going with Python version: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
Should I switch to the Rust version https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs ?

[drixter]

Hi,

I'm using python one, but last time there was update, so even it's needed for normal Firefox on PC.

On mobile:

On Firefox on PC:
identify.sync.tokenserver.uri: https://fxa.e-utp.net/token/1.0/sync/1.5

Looking the logs, both Firefox connect to syncserver and transfer some data.

of course, please instead fxa.e-utp.net your server, but you can also try with mine for test.

[Thlb]

@drixter it seems filling the « custom FxA content server » field did the trick for me ! Thank you so much! After 4 month I can finally connect my device...

I didn’t check all the features too but seems promising

[nook24]

@drixter Thanks for posting your settings. This was the missing hint!

I updated my Python Sync Server to the latest master branch.

So for Firefox Desktop I use identity.sync.tokenserver.uri=https://sync.nook24.eu/token/1.0/sync/1.5
On Firefox iOS have to use https://sync.nook24.eu/token/ without 1.0/sync/1.5

I also set FxA Server to https://accounts.firefox.com but I don't know if it is really necessary.

[chkpnt]

Yeah, thanks for the hints! Now it's working for me, too :-)

And I can confirm: Without setting the FxA Server to https://accounts.firefox.com I get the redirect_uri error.

And as suggested by @drixter and @nook24 it's important to note that the token-server url must not include 1.0/sync/1.5, otherwise you get something like this in your server logs:

172.19.0.3 - - [06/Sep/2020:13:36:58 +0200] "GET /ffsync/token/1.0/sync/1.5/1.0/sync/1.5 HTTP/1.1" 404 1 "-" "Firefox-iOS-FxA/28.1b19225 (iPhone; iPhone OS 13.7) (Firefox)"

[gruzilla]

I can also confirm, that

on Firefox Desktop this works:
identity.sync.tokenserver.uri=https://xxxxxxxxxxx/token/1.0/sync/1.5

On Firefox iOS this works:
custom fxa content server: https://accounts.firefox.com (redirect error without configuring it)
custom sync token server: https://xxxxxxxxxxx/token without 1.0/sync/1.5 (had to restart ipad and firefox so that the new setting was accepted)

[Thlb]

After a lot of tests, I can confirm that everything is fully working :

• Login to custom syncserver with account/password
• Login to custom syncserver with QRcode
• Bookmarks sync iOS -> MacOS/Windows & MacOS/Windows -> iOS
• Send tab to device iOS -> MacOS/Windows & MacOS/Windows -> iOS
• Synced Tabs : Each device (iOS, MacOS, Windows, UNIX) are displayed in the list !

[BobWs]

Finally it is working! Thanks for sharing

[hesne]

That seems to work, but as last sync date I've 2020-05-22. Also after pressing the sync button. Looks like that all newer bookmakrs and passwords are not syncing.