Hi community and M-Files,
I am tasked to design new Web API which should download and open documents from M-Files. Our users are not satisfied with links created by M-Files.
I am struggling to authenticate user with SSO M-Files functionality. Basically, I have .NET 6 Web Api running under own app pool. It tries to authenticate over SSO functionality:
public async Task AuthenticateUsingSSO(string vaultGuid)
{
// Build a request to WebServiceSSO.aspx.
var request = new RestRequest($"/WebServiceSSO.aspx?popup=1&vault={vaultGuid}");
try
{
// Execute the request.
var response = await _client.GetAsync(request);
if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized)
throw new AuthenticationException(response.Content, response.ErrorMessage);
// Populate our cookie container with the cookies (i.e. session tokens)
// returned by the request to WebServiceSSO.aspx.
if (response.Cookies != null)
{
foreach (var cookie in response.Cookies.AsEnumerable())
{
_client.CookieContainer.Add(new Cookie(cookie.Name, cookie.Value, cookie.Path, cookie.Domain));
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new AuthenticationException(ex);
}
}
When I execute "await _client.GetAsync(request);", I already starts getting 401 Unauthorized error.
RestClient is initialized like this:
return new RestClient(
new RestClientOptions
{
Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials,
BaseUrl = new Uri(_baseUrl)
}
);
This should pick up credentials from executing user.
I am following examples from M-Files client library from Git and I am using RestSharp library.
Has anyone implemented windows authentication / SSO in IIS? Basically taking user credentials with windows authentication and logging with those credentials over SSO API from M-Files.
I would appreciate any sharing in this area. It would be also great to know if someone used .NET Core or .NET 6 to implement this one.
Best regards,
Dejan
