When you’re enthusiastic about Scorching Reload like me AND you additionally need an “A” grade from SecurityHeaders.com (actually, go do that now) then you’ll be taught in a short time about Content material-Safety-Coverage headers. It’s essential to spend a while studying and you could find yourself with a considerably refined checklist of allowed issues, scripts, stylesheets, and so forth.
In DasBlog Core (the cross platform weblog engine that runs this weblog) Mark Downie makes these configurable and makes use of the NWebSpec ASP.NET Middleware library so as to add the wanted headers.
if (SecurityStyleSources != null && SecurityScriptSources != null && DefaultSources != null)
{
app.UseCsp(choices => choices
.DefaultSources(s => s.Self()
.CustomSources(DefaultSources)
)
.StyleSources(s => s.Self()
.CustomSources(SecurityStyleSources)
.UnsafeInline()
)
.ScriptSources(s => s.Self()
.CustomSources(SecurityScriptSources)
.UnsafeInline()
.UnsafeEval()
)
);
}
Every of these variables comes out of a config file. Sure, it could be extra safety in the event that they got here out of a vault or had been even exhausting coded.
DasBlog is a pretty big and funky app and we seen instantly upon Mark upgrading it to .NET 6 that we had been unable to make use of Scorching Reload (by way of dotnet watch or from VS 2022). We will complain about it, or we are able to study the way it works and why it isn’t working for us!
Keep in mind: Nothing in your laptop is hidden from you.
Beginning with a easy “View Supply” we are able to see a JavaScript embrace on the very backside that’s positively not mine!
<script src="http://feeds.hanselman.com/_framework/aspnetcore-browser-refresh.js"></script>
Okay, this is sensible as we all know not solely does HotReload assist C# (code behinds) but additionally Markup by way of Razor Pages and altering CSS! It might positively want to speak “again house” to the runner which is both “dotnet watch” or VS2022.
If I modify the ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT to “Manufacturing” (both by way of launch.json, launchsettings, or an atmosphere variable like this, I can see that additional HotReload helper script is not there:
C:githubwshotreloadtest>dotnet run --environment="Manufacturing"
Constructing...
information: Microsoft.Internet hosting.Lifetime[14]
Now listening on: https://localhost:7216
information: Microsoft.Internet hosting.Lifetime[14]
Now listening on: http://localhost:5216
Keep in mind: You by no means need to use dotnet run in manufacturing! It is an SDK constructing command! You may need to use dotnet exec your.dll, dotnet your.dll, or better of all, in .NET 6 simply name the EXE instantly! .binDebugnet6.0wshotreloadtest.exe in my instance. Why? dotnet run will all the time assume it is in Improvement (you actually inform it to revive, construct, and exec in a single run command) when you run it. You may word that operating the precise EXE is all the time WAY sooner as effectively! Do not ship your .NET SDK to your webserver and do not recompile the entire thing on startup in manufacturing!
We will see that that aspnnetcore-browser-refresh.js is the consumer aspect of Improvement-time HotReload. our browser console we see :
Refused to hook up with 'wss://localhost:62486/'
as a result of it violates the next Content material Safety Coverage
directive: "default-src 'self'".
Be aware that 'connect-src' was not explicitly set,
so 'default-src' is used as a fallback.
That is rather a lot to consider. I began out my ASP.NET Internet App’s center ware saying it was OK to speak “again to myself” however nowhere else.
app.UseCsp(choices => choices.DefaultSources(s => s.Self()));
Hm, self appears cheap, why cannot the browser join BACK to the dotnet run’ed Kestrel Internet Server? It is all localhost, proper? Properly, particularly it is http://localhost not ws://localhost, and even wss://localhost (that additional s is for safe) so I have to explicitly permit ws: or wss: or each, however solely in Improvement.
Possibly like this (once more, I am utilizing NWebSpec, however these are simply HTTP Headers so you possibly can actually simply add them if you’d like, hardcoded.)
app.UseCsp(choices => choices.DefaultSources(s => s.Self())
.ConnectSources(s => s.CustomSources("wss://localhost:62895")));
However port numbers change, proper? Let’s just do wss:, solely in Improvement. Now, if I am utilizing each CSPs and WebSockets (ws:, wss:) in Manufacturing, I will should be intentional about this.
What is the ethical?
When you begin utilizing CSP Headers to tighten issues up, be aware and conscious of the headers you want for conveniences like Scorching Reload in Improvement versus no matter issues you could want in Manufacturing.
Hope this helps prevent a while!
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