June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
8h 19m
English
If you are implementing a big enterprise solution that consists of different distributed applications that require authentication and authorization but require to use the same user's database, you will need to implement a different flow to manage the authentication in all these independent applications. This mechanism is called single sign-on (SSO), which will basically ask for login once in any of your applications and will reuse the same generated token in all the applications. The following diagram explains this flow:

In the preceding illustration, there are three applications. Let's suppose that these three different applications ...
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