For development purposes, how can I call my local web api from auth0 rule

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For development purposes, I want to call my local web api from auth0 rule. The error I get is (pulled from rules logs) -
Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND my-web-api-1.com
at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:66:26) {
errno: ‘ENOTFOUND’,
code: ‘ENOTFOUND’,

My api has been configured for authentication in auth0. I get the access token and use this token to make the api call.
Here is my rule script -

function (user, context, callback) {
  const axios = require('axios');
  //Request the access token
  const options = { method: 'POST',
    url: `https://${auth0.domain}/oauth/token`,
    headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
    data: `{"client_id":"${configuration.RULE_APP_CLIENT_ID}","client_secret":"${configuration.RULE_APP_CLIENT_SECRET}","audience":"https://my-web-api-1.com","grant_type":"client_credentials"}` };
  axios(options)
    .then( res => {
      const access_token = res.data.access_token;
      const apiCallOpts = { method: 'GET',
                            url: 'https://my-web-api-1.com/<path>',
                            headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${access_token}`}
                          };
      axios(apiCallOpts).then(apiRes => {
        console.log(apiRes);
      }).catch( err => {
      		console.log(err);
    	});
    return callback(null, user, context);
    })
    .catch( err => {
      console.log(err);
    });  
}

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NOTE: In my dev environment (windows 10) I did create inbound rules for the IP addresses mentioned here Auth0 IP Addresses for Allow Lists for US region.

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It looks like this error is stating that the URL provided cannot be resolved, or doesn’t exist.

https://my-web-api-1.com

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Thank you for your reply. I have created the entry in my host file as follows -

127.0.0.1 my-web-api-1.com

Is this approach valid for development purposes? Or do I have to publish my api to a publically accessible url?

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The rule is running in a container in the cloud, so yes, it needs to accessible from there. The host file is like a static DNS for your machine IIRC.

6

Sounds good! Thank you Dan!

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No problem. Let us know if you have any other questions.

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