I need a URL that will return 200 for a logged in user and 401 or 403 if the user is not logged in. If require_login is checked, every page does a 301 to the login page.

Is this a user request, i.e. using the current users session? Or… Is this an admin API request using an admin API key?

[imagen] DeanMarkTaylor: Is this a user request, i.e. using the current users session? Yeah. It’s me not understanding the question I’m asking. I’m trying to do an auth_request in NGINX to tell whether the request is coming from a user that’s logged in by querying an URL to see whether it ge…

You could try /session/current.json It will return 200 if authenticated and 404 if not. Generally .json / API requests don’t redirect. app/controllers/application_controller.rb main else current_user end end …

That seems promising. I’ll keep poking at it. Many thanks!

Is there an easy way to do this from a different subdomain? Example, the forum is at forum.example.com and the request is coming from example.com (either from the frontend or backend code).

Sure. You can make an API call from anywhere.

But this specific call needs to be done from the frontend, since it will use the session cookies sent by the browser to the forum.

The Discourse session cookie appears to be just for the subdomain, so would the cookie be accessible from the top-level domain? I see _forum_session on the Discourse subdomain but it doesn’t appear when visiting the TLD. If the cookie were available on the top-level domain, I was thinking that it w…

If you want anything fancy like this you would need to implement your own CurrentUserProvider

[imagen] sam: If you want anything fancy like this you would need to implement your own CurrentUserProvider Thanks, I just looked it up and found this other thread , so I’ll ask some more questions about it over there. Edit: it looks like we can do what we need with Discourse as an SSO provid…

Is there an endpoint to check if a user is logged in

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sam (Sam Saffron) 23 Julio, 2018 21:43 12

If you can do it with SSO I highly recommend you go that path vs a provider

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Is there an endpoint to check if a user is logged in

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