I have a client that is putting together a DNN website.  They also use a third party web application (hosted on the Internet) for back office management.  This app has a web api that allows you to publish various web forms that allow authenticated users to modify data in the application. 

I would like to use DNN to manage the authentication, and display pages in DNN to authenticated users which present various forms from the third party ipp in iFrame pages within the DNN site.

There is a web api for sending credentials to the third party app, which returns a security token that is used on the query string for subsequent calls to the data entry forms.

Will DNN or a third party authentication component support this sort of integration from DNN with an external website? 

Any info is greatly appreciated.

Steve Burt

SB Consulting

Thanks for your quick response Matthias.

I have not done any module development yet, but this looks like my chance to.  I would like to use the DNN database as the user credentials store.  I can login using the DNN credentials to login to the 3p app with a web service call.  What would be the best practice way to store the security token returned by the login call?  This token has to be passed back to the 3p app on the subsequent calls I will do within the iFrame.

Steve

Thanks Matthias,

I understand your point about the iFrame. A DNN module that handles the SSO and can be configured to display different URLs from the external app sounds like the way to go. I will look for a good developer and hopefully get this going quickly.

Thank you for your advice.
Steve