External Web App Authentication from Salesforce

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I am trying to build a Salesforce App Integration to a SAAS product we own. (say www.ABC.com). The app would have a simple Apex page to fetch files from Salesforce Objects and upload them on ABC.com.

For this to work, I want the users on salesforce to be registered users on ABC.com. They should be able to login into ABC.com from SFDC. However, I have a few concerns

  • OAuth - Although SFDC has this capability, I do not want to implement an Oauth Provider service on ABC.com.

  • Signed Request Authentication - Since, I want SFDC users to have an account on ABC.com, this strategy may not be helpful. Please correct me if you think I am wrong.

  • There would be a simple login apex page on SFDC which logs them in. ABC.com is then embedded into an iframe in the next view.

Any ideas on managing the session and cookies? Do I have to store the cookies in order to have a long lived connection to ABC.com so that users do not have to login every time they use the app. Thanks!

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I had the same requirement and chose to use a signed request when calling my iframe. When receiving the signed request, I validated that the request came from Salesforce and was signed by the shared secret. You can then use a convention of mapping between SF users and abc.com users. For example, identical email account. If so, you log in the user in abc.com.