Its not immediately obvious, and commonly misconstrued as an problem of disappearing tokens, but the OAuth grants in ISAM have a "Maximum" Grant lifetime, as opposed to an inactivity in a default API Definition. This means that when you request a Token - say via ROPC and you are using the default settings of an... Continue Reading →
A number of customers like to use various alias's to authenticate into ISAM, up until recently, the primary way of achieving this, is via a Custom EAI, or some elaborate LDAP hackery. Infomap, and the UserHelper capabilities, makes this a much easier affair. Here is an example, where we use the infomap to authenticate based... Continue Reading →
In a previous post, I shared a way to get headers in OTP mapping rules and in the AuthSvcCred Mapping rules. Since the infomap module is a little bit different, I have included an example of how you can do it there: Here is the output into my MACRO for easy debugging: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;... Continue Reading →
When performing an Authorization Code flow, or when performing an Implicit Grant flow, it may be necessary to get attributes out of the ISAM Session credential, and store them with your OAuth tokens. This is a quick guide to show how this can be done: Identify the request in the mapping rule Requests passing through... Continue Reading →
The ISAM OAuth implementation is exceedingly flexible. If you are just looking to do basic OAuth flows, then chances are you won't ever even look in these OAuth Mapping Rules. On the other hand, if you're looking to modify the behaviour of the OAuth flow to achieve OAuth nirvana, then these Mapping Rules are going... Continue Reading →
ISAM Advanced Access Control has a mechanism that allows a developer to convert an authenticated/valid OAuth Access token, into an authenticated ISAM session, that is using a cookie. There are two useful scenarios that this endpoint comes in handy: Hybrid Apps Where an OAuth authenticated native application wants to open a WebView, that is authenticated... Continue Reading →
In ISAM 9.0.1 it's possible to use a rich text email template for Email One Time Passwords. There is a knack to setting it up though, you need to add the HTML to the XML template file using CDATA tags like the example below:
Philip Nye 