Hi, I am in the process of building a single-page application using Okta for SSO. I am currently using the okta-signin-widget for handling the heavy lifting but I was wondering what the recommendations would be in terms of using OIDC vs the Okta APIs. I have the following scenario for my SSO needs: …

I think we cover this discussion to some extent here: https://developer.okta.com/authentication-guide/auth-overview/#authentication-api-vs-oauth-20-vs-openid-connect Let me know if you have any questions about it, we are happy to help with understanding and plug any documentation holes. One note …

Hi Tom, Thank you for the links – very helpful. I think OpenID makes sense, my only concern is how to implement long-lived sessions. Ideally I would like a session to last for a week, in a sliding fashion, so that every time a user uses the application their session would be extended. Basically I w…

Are you trying to get the Okta session to remain active? Or your SPA’s access token? It might be easier to look at this from a Google’s POV. When I create a client app and authenticate Google, Google keeps a session. This allows me to use google apps based on their requirements, their activity a…

That’s a good question. I guess in this case it would almost be both, as I am using Okta for both the application and as an overarching SSO session manager. By having a long-lived SSO session I guess that could be used to create new application sessions if they have expired. So while the access toke…

OpenID connect vs Session/Authentication API

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kenny_compute May 29, 2018, 9:08pm 6

@anvar, did you ever figure out a solution? I also have been wondering the same thing.

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