Hmm ok.
But will it (eg: sso) create both a UUF cookie and a cookie for ms4j? or it
is the same cookie? I don't think I understand it well.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, we can prompt the login from JS itself. But the login flow is not
> always that simple. Ex: In a case where SSO is enabled, the app (JS) need
> to do a bunch of things to initiate the SSO flow such as checking if its
> IDP initiated SSO, redirect to IS. If its SP initiated SSO, generate SAML
> request and send to IS. Similarly the app needs to decrypt/verify signature
> of the SAML response before initiating the flow to get an access token.
>
> There are bunch of complexities to handle as above if we try to make the
> login work purely on the client side. Therefore I think its more suitable
> to get the UUF app to process the login flow and give an access token to
> the client (JS) so that the client can simply keep using it from there
> onwards to fetch the data and render.
>
> Thanks,
> NuwanD.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> micro service layer and prompt login from there.
>>>
>> Well, I am suggesting the do the prompt in the frontend JS. This is how
>> frontend only applications usually work.
>>
>> We are not trying to protect UI templates through cookies.
>>
>> Then you don't need UUF cookie, it's there *to protect UIs*. Do a API
>> call to your backend (eg: /token?revalidate) and it can tell you if you
>> have a session or not , and then you do the prompt using JS. No UUF needed.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Rajith Roshan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Manu,
>>>
>>> Yes we can say that this is almost 90%  a front end app. But in order to
>>> provide access token and to prompt login when access token is missing we
>>> use back end functionalities of UUF.
>>> We are not trying to protect UI templates through cookies. What we are
>>> trying to do is provide access token via the uuf app. We are trying to do
>>> the login prompt using the uuf app. So if token is missing micro service
>>> layer will not be invoked and login will be prompted through the uuf app.
>>> AFAIU what you are suggesting is to move this logic to micro service
>>> layer and prompt login from there.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I assume you guys have a /auth API, this can set a cookie [1] just has
>>>> easily as UUF. And all your other APIs can read the cookie.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes we have /token api as a micro service bind to the uuf app which sets
>>> the cookie.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3340797/can-an-ajax-respo
>>>> nse-set-a-cookie
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So you guys don't want to use UUF for its backend rending, just as a
>>>>> static server and want to do a frontend app, that's cool. But then 
>>>>> properly
>>>>> write a frontend app. Seems like you guys don't know how to write a SPA 
>>>>> and
>>>>> running back to bankend app logic.
>>>>>
>>>>> If your UUF UI don't have any data (just templates) then there why do
>>>>> you need to cookie protect them. You need a custom auth mechanism for your
>>>>> microservices where half of the value is picked from the cookies, this has
>>>>> nothing to do with protecting UI.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> With regards,
>>>> *Manu*ranga Perera.
>>>>
>>>> phone : 071 7 70 20 50
>>>> mail : [email protected]
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rajith Roshan
>>> Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc.
>>> Mobile: +94-72-642-8350 <%2B94-71-554-8430>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> With regards,
>> *Manu*ranga Perera.
>>
>> phone : 071 7 70 20 50
>> mail : [email protected]
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Nuwan Dias
>
> Software Architect - WSO2, Inc. http://wso2.com
> email : [email protected]
> Phone : +94 777 775 729 <+94%2077%20777%205729>
>



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