Fix example in README for self-hosted instances

[phylor]

For self-hosted servers, the base_url must not include a / at the end, because /api will be concatenated to it. If you do, the error message is quite vague:

rbw login: failed to log in to bitwarden instance: failed to parse JSON: .: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0

Took me some time to read your code and figure out that the slash was the problem. I was mainly confused by the example https://api.bitwarden.com/ given, which has a trailing slash. So I included it in my self-hosted URL.

Alternatively, you could think about concatenating the URL using some library, which would drop a / if necessary (I don't know Rust, so I can't help).

Thank you for creating this tool! The pinentry and caching of the password in the agent is exactly what is missing from the official client.

[doy]

this isn't correct - i have always had my own private server configured with a trailing /, and it works fine. can you give more details about how you determined that this was the problem?

[phylor]

@doy Strange. There must be something different in our configurations/setups.

Here my flow to reproduce the issue:

$ cat ~/.config/rbw/config.json
{"email":"[email protected]","base_url":"https://bitwarden.example.com","identity_url":null,"lock_timeout":3600,"pinentry":"pinentry"}

$ rbw ls
# works fine

$ vim # add trailing slash
$ cat ~/.config/rbw/config.json
{"email":"[email protected]","base_url":"https://bitwarden.example.com/","identity_url":null,"lock_timeout":3600,"pinentry":"pinentry"}

$ rbw ls # I'm prompted for my password, I enter it and then the following error is displayed
rbw list: failed to log in to bitwarden instance: failed to parse JSON: .: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0

Removing the trailing slash from the base_url, makes everything behave normally again.

The bitwarden server logs say:

bitwarden-api    | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics[1]
bitwarden-api    |       Request starting HTTP/1.0 POST http://bitwarden.example.com/accounts/prelogin application/json 24
bitwarden-api    | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.EndpointMiddleware[0]
bitwarden-api    |       Executing endpoint 'Bit.Api.Controllers.AccountsController.PostPrelogin (Api)'
bitwarden-api    | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker[3]
bitwarden-api    |       Route matched with {action = "PostPrelogin", controller = "Accounts"}. Executing controller action with signature System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1[Bit.Core.Models.Api.PreloginResponseModel] PostPrelogin(Bit.Core.Models.Api.PreloginRequestModel) on controller Bit.Api.Controllers.AccountsController (Api).
bitwarden-api    | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ObjectResultExecutor[1]
bitwarden-api    |       Executing ObjectResult, writing value of type 'Bit.Core.Models.Api.PreloginResponseModel'.
bitwarden-api    | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker[2]
bitwarden-api    |       Executed action Bit.Api.Controllers.AccountsController.PostPrelogin (Api) in 146.5445ms
bitwarden-api    | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.EndpointMiddleware[1]
bitwarden-api    |       Executed endpoint 'Bit.Api.Controllers.AccountsController.PostPrelogin (Api)'
bitwarden-api    | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics[2]
bitwarden-api    |       Request finished in 160.1854ms 200 application/json; charset=utf-8
bitwarden-identity | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics[1]
bitwarden-identity |       Request starting HTTP/1.0 POST http://bitwarden.example.com//identity/connect/token application/x-www-form-urlencoded 245
bitwarden-identity | info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics[2]
bitwarden-identity |       Request finished in 1.3005ms 404

I guess it's notable that /accounts/prelogin does not have a double slash, but //identity/connect/token does. As that is the last request in the server logs, I gues rbw fails to parse its response (possibly because it's empty?).

I'm using the official bitwarden server and a traefik reverse proxy in front of that, if that matters.

[doy]

ah, this is probably a difference between the official bitwarden server and bitwarden_rs (which i use). it'll probably be easiest for me to just handle the concatenation properly.

[doy]

this should be fixed in 95c29fd

[phylor]

@doy Great, thank you!