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The javascript/GWT code behind the front end.
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Add redirect URI to Login Page #263

Closed jojenki closed 11 years ago

jojenki commented 11 years ago

Per cens/ohmageServer#478 and cens/ohmageFrontEnd#262, we are adding a redirect URI parameter to allow another site on the same domain to tell the login page where the user should be redirected after successful authentication.

The front end will send this URI to /app/user/auth_token as an optional parameter. Upon successful authentication, a 302 will be returned redirecting the user back to that URI.

jeroen commented 11 years ago

Another method is for the clientside login app to return to the document.referrer after successful auth.

jojenki commented 11 years ago

We thought about that, but we think it will work better with existing systems to just handle it at the browser level. Can you think of a major disadvantage to doing it this way?

jeroen commented 11 years ago

If you are using ajax to call auth_token, then the redirect will not be very helpful because it redirects the ajax request instead of the browser.