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fix(desktop): Entra sign-in offers passkeys in the preview browser - #30018
Entra sign-in hides the passkey option in the desktop preview browser. The request User-Agent contains an Electron/<version> token, and Entra then stops offering passkeys even though the embedded Chromium supports WebAuthn and platform authenticators (Windows Hello, and 1Password as Windows plugin passkey provider). Details and measurements are in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/30014.
Change
BrowserSession registers a webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders listener, scoped to login.microsoftonline.com, login.microsoft.com and login.live.com, that removes the Electron/<version> token from the User-Agent request header. Nothing else changes:
vp test run src/preview/BrowserSession.test.ts in apps/desktop: 10 of 10 pass, including two new tests: one for the token stripping (with and without a token present) and one that the listener is registered for exactly the three Microsoft hosts, handles User-Agent and user-agent header keys, and leaves the original headers object untouched.
vp fmt --check and vp lint on the two changed files, plus the pre-commit knip:check.
Manual A/B test on Windows 11 in a dev build (Electron 44.10.0, same build, same account, 1Password as passkey provider), with the rewrite toggled off and on:
rewrite off: Entra shows no passkey option
rewrite on: Entra shows the passkey option and sign-in works
navigator.userAgent in the page was identical in both runs.
What I could not check:
I did not capture the outgoing header on the wire; the effect is inferred from the behavior change.
I do not know whether Electron/ is the only trigger Entra looks at, or whether the app token matters too.
Only Windows was tested. macOS and Linux were not.
Entra hides the passkey option when the request User-Agent contains an
Electron/<version> token. Strip that token from the User-Agent request
header, only for the Microsoft sign-in hosts. navigator.userAgent and all
other sites keep the native User-Agent, so the Turnstile fix from pingdotgg#7110 is
unaffected.
Fixespingdotgg#30014
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The preview browser removes its Electron identifier only from requests to three Microsoft sign-in hosts so passkey options can appear. Authentication permissions and browser identity for other sites remain unchanged.
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Walkthrough
BrowserSession now removes the Electron token from User-Agent request headers for Teams and three Microsoft sign-in hosts. The test covers the expanded host list.
The request-header handler applies Electron-token removal to Teams and Microsoft sign-in URLs. The test adds the three Microsoft sign-in hosts to its request filter and updates its title and comment.
The change strips the Electron token from request headers only for Microsoft sign-in hosts, so Entra can offer passkeys in the preview browser. Other sites are unaffected, and the change is easy to revert. No merge-blocking risk was found.
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Title check
The title names the main change: a fix so Entra sign-in offers passkeys in the desktop preview browser. It follows the conventional commit format and matches the Electron User-Agent change for Microso…
Description check
The description follows the repository template. It has a Problem section with the expected behavior and a link to the issue. It has a Change section that explains the host-scoped User-Agent stripping…
Linked Issues check
[#30014] The reviewed head adds three Microsoft sign-in URL patterns (login.microsoftonline.com, login.microsoft.com, login.live.com) to the existing onBeforeSendHeaders filter in `BrowserSess…
Out of Scope Changes check
[#30014] The whole-PR diff against the merge base changes only BrowserSession.ts and BrowserSession.test.ts. In BrowserSession.ts, the constant renamed from TEAMS_URL_PATTERNS to `ELECTRON_TOK…
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The title names the main change: a fix so Entra sign-in offers passkeys in the desktop preview browser. It follows the conventional commit format and matches the Electron User-Agent change for Microsoft sign-in hosts described in the summary and objectives. It is specific and does not use vague terms.
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The description follows the repository template. It has a Problem section with the expected behavior and a link to the issue. It has a Change section that explains the host-scoped User-Agent stripping and why the global rewrite was avoided. It has a Scope section that links the bug report and explains the lack of maintainer approval. It has a Verification section with the test command and results, a manual Windows 11 A/B test, and a list of what was not checked. It names the model and harness. The template asks for before/after screenshots for UI changes, but this change does not alter UI, and the description does not include screenshots. The description is mostly complete.
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[#30014] The reviewed head adds three Microsoft sign-in URL patterns (login.microsoftonline.com, login.microsoft.com, login.live.com) to the existing onBeforeSendHeaders filter in BrowserSession.ts. The Teams patterns were already present at the merge base. The unchanged listener body removes only the Electron/<version> token from the User-Agent header for matching requests. The listener copies the headers rather than mutating them, and navigator.userAgent is unchanged. The test asserts the exact filter, now including the three Microsoft hosts, and asserts that other hosts keep the native User-Agent. The issue's coding requirements are met in the code. The passkey behavior itself rests on the author's manual Windows test and was not reproduced in this review.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
Explanation
[#30014] The whole-PR diff against the merge base changes only BrowserSession.ts and BrowserSession.test.ts. In BrowserSession.ts, the constant renamed from TEAMS_URL_PATTERNS to ELECTRON_TOKEN_STRIPPED_URL_PATTERNS now holds the Microsoft sign-in hosts, and its comment is updated. The test change extends the filter assertion and updates its title and comment. All changes relate to the requested host-scoped Electron token removal. No unrelated change appears in the diff.
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Main added a Teams onBeforeSendHeaders listener in BrowserSession.ts, which conflicted with this PR's listener. Electron keeps only one listener per session, so a second registration would silently replace the first. I merged github/main (merge commit, no rebase) and moved the three Microsoft sign-in hosts into that single listener's URL list. The rewrite is the same: only Electron/<version> is removed from the User-Agent request header. The PR's separate helper and its two tests became duplicates of main's Teams test, so I extended that test's URL assertion to cover the sign-in hosts and dropped the duplicates.
vp run check:changed passed on a Blacksmith testbox (format, lint, knip, typecheck, BrowserSession.test.ts 8/8). I did not rerun the Electron passkey check below after the merge. The hosts and the header rewrite are unchanged from what that check verified.
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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria
Verified in a real dev environment
Verified the passkey option as-is at 4f81d7e8be6413e862aef544c5e9abed09f39440, against github/main at cefb544af3c98224874419198c0359b652ca3c94, on this Linux Boat VM using the real Electron 44.10.0 desktop app and Microsoft sign-in pages.
Started isolated dev environments one at a time. Added real git projects through the app and completed real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the web UI on both revisions.
Opened the desktop Browser panel, navigated to https://login.microsoftonline.com/, and opened "Sign-in options". Main omitted the passkey entry. The PR showed "Face, fingerprint, PIN or security key" with "Use your device to sign in with a passkey."
Captured actual outgoing headers through CDP Network.requestWillBeSentExtraInfo: main included Electron/44.10.0; the PR removed it for all three configured Microsoft hosts. navigator.userAgent retained the native token on both revisions.
Checked neighboring behavior: Microsoft redirects and sign-in pages load; preview back/forward restores navigation; https://httpbin.org/user-agent echoes the unchanged native Electron UA. Office.com redirects, Microsoft CDN and telemetry requests also retain it.
Built the desktop/server runtime and ran the existing BrowserSession.test.ts through blacksmith-check: all 10 tests passed. Latest GitHub checks: 23 successful, 18 skipped, no failures or pending checks. No source changes or pushes were needed.
Completing sign-in with an enrolled passkey, the work-account-specific post-username screen, Windows Hello, Windows 1Password, macOS authenticators, native iOS/Android, and a full Cloudflare Turnstile challenge. This VM has no enrolled account or physical authenticator; PublicKeyCredential.isUserVerifyingPlatformAuthenticatorAvailable() returned false. The live passkey option and host-scoped request rewrite were verified without mocks, fixtures, demo data, virtual authenticators, or user-agent overrides.
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Problem
Entra sign-in hides the passkey option in the desktop preview browser. The request
User-Agentcontains anElectron/<version>token, and Entra then stops offering passkeys even though the embedded Chromium supports WebAuthn and platform authenticators (Windows Hello, and 1Password as Windows plugin passkey provider). Details and measurements are in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/30014.Change
BrowserSessionregisters awebRequest.onBeforeSendHeaderslistener, scoped tologin.microsoftonline.com,login.microsoft.comandlogin.live.com, that removes theElectron/<version>token from theUser-Agentrequest header. Nothing else changes:navigator.userAgentand every other site keep Electron's native User-Agent, so the Turnstile fix from https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/7110 is unaffected.Scope and approval
This is a behavior change, so it needs maintainer direction. https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/30014 is the bug report; it has not been triaged yet, so there is no maintainer approval to link at the time of writing. I opened this as a small, host-scoped change so the direction can be judged against concrete code, and I will rework or close it if the maintainers prefer a different approach (for example a per-profile setting, as discussed in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/22444).
Verification
vp test run src/preview/BrowserSession.test.tsinapps/desktop: 10 of 10 pass, including two new tests: one for the token stripping (with and without a token present) and one that the listener is registered for exactly the three Microsoft hosts, handlesUser-Agentanduser-agentheader keys, and leaves the original headers object untouched.vp fmt --checkandvp linton the two changed files, plus the pre-commitknip:check.navigator.userAgentin the page was identical in both runs.What I could not check:
Electron/is the only trigger Entra looks at, or whether the app token matters too.I also asked Microsoft whether this Entra behavior is intended: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/6059339/entra-sign-in-does-not-offer-passkeys-when-the-use
Closes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/30014
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Fixes #30014