How to open up the URL after logged in?

[volkanbicer]

I've already logged in and I'm just trying to open up the URL of the site protected by SSO, how it could be done?

[lapinek]

In AppAuth-iOS context, which, I assume, we ought to be in, the authentication cookie is to be a persistent one in iOS 11+. At least by default. A session cookie may be shared if a custom OIDExternalUserAgentIOS used to open Safari for visiting the authorization endpoint. Similar to: https://gist.github.com/WilliamDenniss/18f3779b4a310361bb955cf4e534f29c. If I understand the question correctly.

[volkanbicer]

Sorry, maybe I should have elaborated more.
We use SSO https://sso.abc.com, so I logged in successfully via AppAuth. At some point, I need to open a URL of my website. Basically, I do it like below. But it

  if let url = URL(string: "https://www.abc.com/popular") {
        let vc = SFSafariViewController(url: url)
        present(vc, animated: true)
    }

But when I did that I see myself NOT logged in on the website. So the question is how can I open a browser as logged-in.

[lapinek]

It depends on iOS version. In iOS 11+ SFSafariViewController does not share cookies with anything; hence, cannot be used for SSO. In iOS 9-10 it does–with its own instances. AppAuth-iOS uses this class in 9-10. As I mentioned, with the authentication classes employed in iOS 11-12, SFAuthenticationSession and ASWebAuthenticationSession, the cookie needs to be a persistent one.

[Jamisyed]

we need to customize the appAuth lib.
let's start.

- (void)openURLWithSafariViewController:(NSURL *)url;

Add this signature to OIDExternalUserAgentIOS.h

#if __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= 130000
- (void)openURLWithSafariViewController:(NSURL *)url {
    if (@available(iOS 13.0, *)) {
        if (!UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled()) {
            NSString *redirectScheme = @"com.terravirtua.example";
            ASWebAuthenticationSession *authenticationVC =
            [[ASWebAuthenticationSession alloc] initWithURL:  url
                                          callbackURLScheme:redirectScheme
                                          completionHandler:^(NSURL * _Nullable callbackURL,
                                                              NSError * _Nullable error) {}];
            authenticationVC.presentationContextProvider = self;
            //authenticationVC.prefersEphemeralWebBrowserSession = true;
            [authenticationVC start];
        }
    }
}
#endif

Add this method to OIDExternalUserAgentIOS.m

Usage in swift

 guard let agent = OIDExternalUserAgentIOS(presenting: self,prefersEphemeralSession: false) else {
                    return
                }
                
                agent.openURL(withSafariViewController: URL(string: "https://www.example.com/")!)

[pvtan]

with the authentication classes employed in iOS 11-12, SFAuthenticationSession and ASWebAuthenticationSession

Adding to this, for iOS 11+ what worked for me was instead of opening a new SFSafariViewController instance, I opened an ASWebAuthenticationSession. On open, I remained authenticated in my website (after logging in previously).

But if you're logging in on https://sso.abc.com, you can only be expected to be logged in for https://sso.abc.com/popular, only in the same domain.

[Jamisyed]

with the authentication classes employed in iOS 11-12, SFAuthenticationSession and ASWebAuthenticationSession

Adding to this, for iOS 11+ what worked for me was instead of opening a new SFSafariViewController instance, I opened an ASWebAuthenticationSession. On open, I remained authenticated in my website (after logging in previously).

But if you're logging in on https://sso.abc.com, you can only be expected to be logged in for https://sso.abc.com/popular, only in the same domain.

Yes.. absolutely right.