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Accessing another site via a DNN site - how to validate a user?

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LisaF

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7/18/2024 5:15 AM

Hi - I am re-posting this from another forum hoping someone might be able to help :-)

apologies in advance, i am not a developer! We have developers currently building some functionality for us and I am looking for some documentation/help..... our main site is a DNN one and users register accounts for secure access. The new functionality that we are adding will be accessed by a user clicking a button in our DNN site, which will take them to the new site. We need a way to authenticate those users on the new site, using their DNN credentials as we want this to be a seamless user experience.

I am hoping that when a user gets passed to the new site, that the request could include a token of some sort that we can validate and use to verify their identity.
(The token might be in a cookie or a url parameter or a header field for example.)

When they are finished their tasks on the new site. they will click a link/menu item to return to where they came from in the DNN site and once again, we will need to know who has arrived on that page so we know what information can be shared with them.

I hope that makes sense and if anyone can point me towards something that i can share with our developers I would be really grateful!

Thanks,

Lisa

David Poindexter

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7/18/2024 10:33 AM

Lisa, this is most likely possible, but it really depends on the capabilities of the other (non-DNN) site. Can you share a bit of insight on what that site is built on? Is it another CMS, an e-Commerce site, a custom site? What is the tech stack? Does it have a built-in authentication mechanism? Is that authentication mechanism extensible?

Do you really need to authenticate the user on the other (non-DNN) site or just keep track of who the DNN user is that was referred? These could be completely different propositions and one (just passing user info to the other site) is significantly simpler than the other (authenticating the user on the other site using DNN as the external auth system).

Given a bit more context, I'm sure we could help with more specific information. :)

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