How to fix "invalid_grant" thrown by the Rails doorkeeper gem

The doorkeeper gem is throwing invalid_grant in your face and you don't know why. Fixing it will be easier if we add some debug statements to the doorkeeper gem. To find the relevant code, we run this from the CLI: ```bash bundle exec gem which doorkeeper ``` This gives us the location of the doorkeeper code. By reading or running grep on the doorkeeper code we can see that the code that raises the invalid_grant error is one of these lines in Doorkeeper::OAuth::AuthorizationCodeRequest: ```ruby validate :grant, error: :invalid_grant # @see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#section-5.2 validate :redirect_uri, error: :invalid_grant validate :code_verifier, error: :invalid_grant ``` For details, see: https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper/blob/bfc132f58455052db7b0c7f936fb72ffd033130d/lib/doorkeeper/oauth/authorization_code_request.rb#L8-L11 Add a debugger statement (binding.pry) to each validation method in gems/doorkeeper-5.5.4/lib/doorkeeper/oauth/authorization_code_request.rb: ```ruby 78: def validate_redirect_uri 79: binding.pry => 80: Helpers::URIChecker.valid_for_authorization?( 81: redirect_uri, 82: grant.redirect_uri, 83: ) 84: end ``` The debugger will stop when we try to authenticate again, and we find out that the problem in this case is an extra query parameters in the redirect_uri: ```ruby [1] pry(#)> redirect_uri => "http://localhost:3000/app/oauth_session?source=password" [2] pry(#)> grant.redirect_uri => "http://localhost:3000/app/oauth_session?xxx=yyy&source=password" ``` By reading the OAuth specification we find that parameters are not allowed: - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/id/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-18.html#name-protecting-redirect-based-f - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/id/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-18.html#name-countermeasures The solution is to remove any extra parameters, in this case xxx, from the client application's redirect URI.