How to use Continuous Access Evaluation enabled APIs in your applications

When these conditions are met, the app can extract and decode the claims challenge using the MSAL.NET WwwAuthenticateParameters class.

if (APIresponse.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
    // ...
}
else
{
    if (APIresponse.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized
        && APIresponse.Headers.WwwAuthenticate.Any())
    {
        string claimChallenge = WwwAuthenticateParameters.GetClaimChallengeFromResponseHeaders(APIresponse.Headers);

Your app then uses the claims challenge to acquire a new access token for the resource.

try
{
    authResult = await _clientApp.AcquireTokenSilent(scopes, firstAccount)
        .WithClaims(claimChallenge)
        .ExecuteAsync()
        .ConfigureAwait(false);
}
catch (MsalUiRequiredException)
{
    try
    {
        authResult = await _clientApp.AcquireTokenInteractive(scopes)
            .WithClaims(claimChallenge)
            .WithAccount(firstAccount)
            .ExecuteAsync()
            .ConfigureAwait(false);
    }
    // ...

Once your application is ready to handle the claim challenge returned by a CAE-enabled resource, you can tell Microsoft Identity your app is CAE-ready. To do this in your MSAL application, build your Public Client using the Client Capabilities of "cp1".

_clientApp = PublicClientApplicationBuilder.Create(App.ClientId)
    .WithDefaultRedirectUri()
    .WithAuthority(authority)
    .WithClientCapabilities(new [] {"cp1"})
    .Build();

When these conditions are met, the app can extract the claims challenge from the API response header as follows:

try {
  const response = await fetch(apiEndpoint, options);

  if (response.status === 401 && response.headers.get('www-authenticate')) {
    const authenticateHeader = response.headers.get('www-authenticate');
    const claimsChallenge = parseChallenges(authenticateHeader).claims;
    // use the claims challenge to acquire a new access token...
  }
} catch(error) {
  // ...
}

// helper function to parse the www-authenticate header
function parseChallenges(header) {
    const schemeSeparator = header.indexOf(' ');
    const challenges = header.substring(schemeSeparator + 1).split(',');
    const challengeMap = {};

    challenges.forEach((challenge) => {
        const [key, value] = challenge.split('=');
        challengeMap[key.trim()] = window.decodeURI(value.replace(/['"]+/g, ''));
    });
    return challengeMap;
}

Your app then uses the claims challenge to acquire a new access token for the resource.

const tokenRequest = {
    claims: window.atob(claimsChallenge), // decode the base64 string
    scopes: ['User.Read'],
    account: msalInstance.getActiveAccount()
};

let tokenResponse;

try {
    tokenResponse = await msalInstance.acquireTokenSilent(tokenRequest);
} catch (error) {
     if (error instanceof InteractionRequiredAuthError) {
        tokenResponse = await msalInstance.acquireTokenPopup(tokenRequest);
    }
}

Once your application is ready to handle the claim challenge returned by a CAE-enabled resource, you can tell Microsoft Identity your app is CAE-ready by adding a clientCapabilities property in the MSAL configuration.

const msalConfig = {
    auth: {
        clientId: 'Enter_the_Application_Id_Here', 
        clientCapabilities: ["CP1"]
        // remaining settings...
    }
}

const msalInstance = new PublicClientApplication(msalConfig);

When these conditions are met, the app can extract the claims challenge from the API response header as follows:

import msal  # pip install msal
import requests  # pip install requests
import www_authenticate  # pip install www-authenticate==0.9.2

# Once your application is ready to handle the claim challenge returned by a CAE-enabled resource, you can tell Microsoft Identity your app is CAE-ready. To do this in your MSAL application, build your Public Client using the Client Capabilities of "cp1".
app = msal.PublicClientApplication("your_client_id", client_capabilities=["cp1"])

...

# When these conditions are met, the app can extract the claims challenge from the API response header as follows:
response = requests.get("<your_resource_uri_here>")
if response.status_code == 401 and response.headers.get('WWW-Authenticate'):
    parsed = www_authenticate.parse(response.headers['WWW-Authenticate'])
    claims = parsed.get("bearer", {}).get("claims")

    # Your app would then use the claims challenge to acquire a new access token for the resource.
    if claims:
        auth_result = app.acquire_token_interactive(["scope"], claims_challenge=claims)

Declare support for the CP1 Client Capability

In your application configuration, you must declare that your application supports CAE by including the CP1 client capability. This is specified by using the client_capabilities JSON property.

{
  "client_id" : "<your_client_id>",
  "authorization_user_agent" : "DEFAULT",
  "redirect_uri" : "msauth://<pkg>/<cert_hash>",
  "multiple_clouds_supported":true,
  "broker_redirect_uri_registered": true,
  "account_mode": "MULTIPLE",
  "client_capabilities": "CP1",
  "authorities" : [
    {
      "type": "AAD",
      "audience": {
        "type": "AzureADandPersonalMicrosoftAccount"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Respond to CAE Challenges at Runtime

Make a request to a resource, if the response contains a claims challenge, extract it, and feed it back into MSAL for use in the next request.

final HttpURLConnection connection = ...;
final int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();

// Check the response code...
if (200 == responseCode) {
    // ...
} else if (401 == responseCode) {
    final String authHeader = connection.getHeaderField("WWW-Authenticate");

    if (null != authHeader) {
        final ClaimsRequest claimsRequest = WWWAuthenticateHeader
                                                .getClaimsRequestFromWWWAuthenticateHeaderValue(authHeader);

        // Feed the challenge back into MSAL, first silently, then interactively if required
        final AcquireTokenSilentParameters silentParameters = new AcquireTokenSilentParameters.Builder()
            .fromAuthority(authority)
            .forAccount(account)
            .withScopes(scope)
            .withClaims(claimsRequest)
            .build();
        
        try {
            final IAuthenticationResult silentRequestResult = mPublicClientApplication.acquireTokenSilent(silentParameters);
            // If successful - your business logic goes here...

        } catch (final Exception e) {
            if (e instanceof MsalUiRequiredException) {
                // Retry the request interactively, passing in any claims challenge...
            }
        }
    }
} else {
    // ...
}

// Don't forget to close your connection

The following code snippets describe the flow of acquiring a token silently, making a http call to resource provider, then handling a CAE case. An extra interaction call may be required if the silent call failed with claims.

Declare support for CP1 client capability

In your application configuration, you must declare that your application supports CAE by including the CP1 client capability. This is specified by using the clientCapabilities property.

let clientConfigurations = MSALPublicClientApplicationConfig(clientId: "contoso-app-ABCDE-12345",
                                                            redirectUri: "msauth.com.contoso.appbundle://auth",
                                                            authority: try MSALAuthority(url: URL(string: "https://login.microsoftonline.com/organizations")!))
clientConfigurations.clientApplicationCapabilities = ["CP1"]
let applicationContext = try MSALPublicClientApplication(configuration: clientConfigurations)

Implement a helper function for parsing claims challenges.

func parsewwwAuthenticateHeader(headers:Dictionary<AnyHashable, Any>) -> String? {
    // !! This is a sample code and is not validated, please provide your own implementation or fully test the sample code provided here.
    // Can also refer here for our internal implementation: https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-common-for-objc/blob/dev/IdentityCore/src/webview/embeddedWebview/challangeHandlers/MSIDPKeyAuthHandler.m#L112
    guard let wwwAuthenticateHeader = headers["WWW-Authenticate"] as? String else {
        // did not find the header, handle gracefully
        return nil
    }
    
    var parameters = [String: String]()
    // regex mapping
    let regex = try! NSRegularExpression(pattern: #"(\w+)="([^"]*)""#)
    let matches = regex.matches(in: wwwAuthenticateHeader, range: NSRange(wwwAuthenticateHeader.startIndex..., in: wwwAuthenticateHeader))
    
    for match in matches {
        if let keyRange = Range(match.range(at: 1), in: wwwAuthenticateHeader),
           let valueRange = Range(match.range(at: 2), in: wwwAuthenticateHeader) {
            let key = String(wwwAuthenticateHeader[keyRange])
            let value = String(wwwAuthenticateHeader[valueRange])
            parameters[key] = value
        }
    }
    
    guard let jsonData = try? JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: .prettyPrinted) else {
        // cannot convert params into json date, end gracefully
        return nil
    }
    return String(data: jsonData, encoding: .utf8)
}

Catch & parse 401 / claims challenges.

let response = .... // HTTPURLResponse object from 401'd service response

switch response.statusCode {
case 200:
    // ...succeeded!
    break
case 401:
    let headers = response.allHeaderFields

    // Parse header fields
    guard let wwwAuthenticateHeaderString = self.parsewwwAuthenticateHeader(headers: headers) else {
        // 3.7 no valid wwwAuthenticateHeaderString is returned from header, end gracefully
        return
    }
    
    let claimsRequest = MSALClaimsRequest(jsonString: wwwAuthenticateHeaderString, error: nil)
    // Create claims request
    let parameters = MSALSilentTokenParameters(scopes: "Enter_the_Protected_API_Scopes_Here", account: account)
    parameters.claimsRequest = claimsRequest
    // Acquire token silently again with the claims challenge
    applicationContext.acquireTokenSilent(with: parameters) { (result, error) in
        
        if let error = error {
            // error happened end flow gracefully, and handle error. (e.g. interaction required)
            return
        }
        
        guard let result = result else {
            
            // no result end flow gracefully
            return
        }                    
        // Success - You got a token!
    }
    
    break
default:
    break
}

When these conditions are met, the app can extract the claims challenge from the API response header as follows:

Advertise client capabilities.

client, err := New("client-id", WithAuthority(authority), WithClientCapabilities([]string{"cp1"}))

parse the WWW-Authenticate header and pass the resulting challenge into MSAL-Go.

// No snippet provided at this time

Attempt to acquire a token silently with the claims challenge.

var ar AuthResult;
ar, err := client.AcquireTokenSilent(ctx, tokenScope, public.WithClaims(claims))