FormidableLabs / FormidableLabs/react-native-app-auth
Infinite loop of "Safari cannot open the page because your iPhone is not connected to the internet..." when authenticating through Okta
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- Java
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Description
## Issue
For users with devices issued from our organization, they experience an infinite loop when authenticating through Okta. The tunneling software for those phones automatically logs the user in via Okta, bypassing the email/password auth screen. Unfortunately, the Safari browser opens `.okta.com` and infinitely refreshes the web address. Safari kicks this back as a "...your iPhone is not connected to the internet..." error.
This issue does not occur for normal iPhones when authenticating with email/password.

Thank you in advance.
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## Environment
* **Your Identity Provider**: `Okta`
* **Platform that you're experiencing the issue on**: `iOS`
* **Are you using Expo?** `No`
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the Okta authentication flow on an organization-issued iPhone and compare it with the normal email/password flow described in the issue. Investigate the iOS React Native authentication path and the AppAuth bridge; done means the Okta flow no longer refreshes indefinitely and completes authentication.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ios, react-native
- Domain
- authentication, mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100