Seamless Authentication with Force.com CanvasJay Hurst

Senior Product Manager, salesforce.com

@extraidea

Chris Jolley

Principal Developer, salesforce.com

@jolley

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Jay HurstSenior Product Manager

Chris JolleyPrincipal Developer

Navigating the Authentication Waters• Providing a seamless login experience for users canvas be difficult, especially when you have multiple applications– How many of you have multiple applications working with

your Salesforce organizations?• Force.com Application, Multiple orgs, new applications

– How many have attempted to manage login with Salesforce using Force.com Canvas?• Federation Providers, SAML, One-off implementations

– How many of you would like to create a more seamless authentication with your Canvas Application?

Canvas Authentication

Two Sides of Authentication• Delivering a seamless login experience means managing two sides

– The Force.com Canvas Framework provides authentication into Salesforce• Signed Request• OAuth Webflow

– Loging into the Canvas App is up to the Canvas Develoepr• No Authentication• Username/Password• SAML• Other SSO Solution

• Together, the end user just gets access!

Canvas with OAuth Webflow• Uses standard OAuth 2.0

– Salesforce loads the Canvas URL with a standard HTTP GET• No authentication is passed

– Canvas app triggers the OAuth flow• Using token passing or refresh token (if available)

– Canvas app sets the token in the Canvas JS Library, and calls getContext()• This returns the context object to the Canvas App

• Requires a bit more management on the Canvas App end

Canvas with Signed Request• Also uses OAuth 2.0, with a twist

– Token generation is done completely on the Salesforce side– Salesforce does an HTTP POST to the Canvas URL

• Response to the POST is loaded into the Canvas iFrame

• First contact with Canvas App contains all of the context information– Less “chatty”– Preferred and default authentication

DemoSigned Request Example

Authentication into the Canvas App• Many ways to establish authentication into your app

– No authentication (open site)– Have a username/password screen– Have an established session in the browser– Create your own SSO Solution– Using a SAML flow

DemoSeamless Authentication

Cross Org Visualforce• By using SAML with your Canvas App, your can link VF pages between orgs

– You must have named users in both orgs– You must use MyDomain feature (to avoid session conflicts)– Org you are showing the VF page in, is the Identity Provider– Org hosting the VF is the Service Provider– Canvas provides the authentication to the source org, so that it can call into the hosting org

• Provides a way to begin to stich your Orgs together

Cross Org VF - Setup• Two orgs: Identity Provider (outer frame), Service Provider (inner frame hosting VF)• Identity Provider org provides the certificate for SAML validation

– Service Provider Org consumes the cert

• IdP Org provides creates a connected app used to connect to the SP org– This app also contains the Canvas information

• SP Org sets up the VF pag• With this setup:

– User logs into IdP– User Opens Canvas App that points to SP VF Page– SAML SSO happens and logs user into SP seamlessly and show VF page– User (or VF page on SP) establishes context to IdP so it can use the Canvas API

DemoCanvas SAML Setup

DemoCross Org Chatter

Wrapup/What Have We Learned?• Today we learned how to manage authentication with Force.com Canvas

– How doe Force.com Provide authentication into salesforce.com– How can you login to your Canvas App– How can you seamlessly login to both sides

• We also learned how to connect two orgs with Force.com Canvas– How do you prepare the orgs– How do we link the orgs together– What does a VF implementation look like

Q&A