Single Sign-On (SSO) implementation in ASP.NET MVC
To start with any secured web application, the developer needs to work on the implementation of the authentication functionality. If any user needs to enter into multiple secured web application on the same domain in the .NET framework, he needs to log-in through each of those applications. Logging in a number of times can be avoided with Single Sign On (SSO) functionality. SSO is a functionality that allows to login once and accesses multiple web applications with the same credentials. For example – once the user enters a user name and password on Gmail, he will be able to access Google’s other web application like Google Plus, YouTube, Play store, etc., with same credentials without logging in again. HOW SSO WORKS: When a user runs a page in an application that requires user-based authentication, the application searches for a cookie (forms authentication cookie) in the HTTP request, if it does not find the cookie, it redirects the current page to the l...