I’ve got SSO set up and working with my website. I’m now wondering if it’s possible to log in a user to Discourse automatically, via the API, when someone logs into the website? This is good so that users do not have to click Log In when they visit Discourse if they’re already logged into the websi…

Are your users visiting Discourse directly, or via a link you control? In the latter case, if they are logged in, send them to the /session/sso route, which will trigger the normal SSO login.

Thanks, I didn’t realise about the route. But that’s not exactly what I’m trying to do, I want to log them in, in the background without them realising and without redirects. Is this possible? Take New Relic for example - https://discuss.newrelic.com/ - Say you’re logged out of Discourse - if you t…

This is tricky to do – the API alone cannot do it, because you need to set a cookie. I’d try embedding the login-route in an invisible iframe once after the user logs in – but that’s an ugly hack.

Hmm that is ugly, but may be necessary. I hope there could be a different way.

@wasimkham we are trying to do exactly similiar thing; and I am just wondering what final approach did you choose?

@rasheedamir I have not implemented anything, it’s not yet a priority so decided to put it in the back seat. If you do find a clean solution in your search I would very much appreciate if you could let me know how you did it.

@wasimkham @rasheedamir Hi guys, has anyone looked into this any further, i have just stumbled across the same issue :frowning: Thanks

I have already suggested something similar. [صورة] Passwordless signin via link generated by api Feature Is it possible? I didn’t see this feature in api. I saw that passwordless signin via email link is already planned. Maybe this feature would also be possi…

Hi, thanks for the info. So I am trying the following: Client logs into my app via Auth0 authentication. On successful authentication, an Auth0 rule kicks in and makes a callback to a page in my app which has a hidden iframe. This hidden iframe simply does a login to disclosure, so when the clien…

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parisa (Pari) 16 مارس 2018، 6:18م 10

I have already suggested something similar.

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