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Passing username to an external rest-service from SPFx WebPart
Quite often, we need to call external services from client side code. If it is a public API and you know your way around CORS, this is easy. But how do you implement a good authentication flow? L...
if your NodeJS API is also in your On Premises infrastructure, maybe you could do some SSO between SP and your API (this is possible with WCF services hosted on IIS using Windows Authentication, but no idea when the API is in Nodejs). Perhaps start searching by Nodejs Windows Auth + SSO + SharePoint
Please, keep us posted if you find a solution, as is a very interesting scenario.
Good luck!
Please, keep us posted if you find a solution, as is a very interesting scenario.
Good luck!
Any update on this? I am also looking to implement using Sharepoint authentication against an external API without having any input from the user.
The closes I've found is using HttpClient to pass credentials as described in this tutorial. I've hit a blocker unfortunately. The Authorisation header is there - but its empty!
Danny Foncke Yep!
I use a Microsoft Graph JWT.
I verify the JWT is genuine using the keys microsoft publishes and thus can trust that is the logged in user.
Hi butch, have you ever found an answer to the question (user already logged in to SharePoint.....) ?
- Recently the SharePoint spfx team has released a new Azure AD Http Client that helps to call Azure AD Secured APIs from spfx. Have a look here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/web-parts/guidance/connect-to-api-secured-with-aad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9fGXZ4ocp4&index=3&t=0s&list=PLR9nK3mnD-OUnJytlXlO84fQnYt50iTmS
Luis.
