Remote authentication with SharePoint Online

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  •  16-10-2019
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Question

I am following the article and sample that can be found in this address: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh147177.aspx

Everything works fine but I need a more automated solution. The user shouldn't see the login popup, and my app must be able to login on behalf of the user without waiting for the popup.

I have two questions in this context:

  1. Can I fill the username and password input boxes in the web browser control automatically? And what do you think of using this system in a service architecture where a service logs in for the users? Using WebBrowser control in a WCF service method makes me nervous.

  2. Can I give up using WebBrowser control completely and code the login process with pure TCP Sockets? I know it's not possible with WebRequest classes because AFAIK HTTPOnly cookies cannot be retrieved with them.

Thanks in advance.

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Solution

What you are after is "Headless" authentication. Check out this blog post from CJ

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