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Want to configure hosted login page via an ASP.NET Core web app

#1

I want my hosted login page to be configurable - essentially I want to pass the initialScreen parameter to configure the login page.

I’ve seen an example using JS, however I’m using ASP.NET Core 2 and I can’t find any such example.

I’m thinking that in my Login method in my controller I can somehow pass the parameter:
public async Task Login(string returnUrl = “/”)
{
await HttpContext.ChallengeAsync(“Auth0”, new AuthenticationProperties() { RedirectUri = returnUrl });

}

Then, in my hosted login page I can pickup the parameter. In the HTML page below, I have currently hard-coded initialScreen: ‘signUp’ when configuring lock.
I want ‘signUp’ to be passed as a parameter.

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#2

Also curious to know if this can be done. I’ve considered using an XHR in the hosted page to go back to my site to read the config.

#3

One option could be to use login_hint - though it’s not really meant for this usage but can be used.

Something like this:

public async Task Login(string returnUrl = “/”)
{
await HttpContext.ChallengeAsync(“Auth0”, new AuthenticationProperties() {new Dictionary<string,string>(){ {“login_hint”,“signup”}
});

HTH,
Zulfiqar

#4

Thanks for responding and for the login_hint idea. However, I still have an issue.

I’ve tried using login_hint.

In the controller code I did:
public async Task Login(string returnUrl = “/”)
{
var props = new AuthenticationProperties { RedirectUri = returnUrl };
props.Items.Add(“login_hint”, “signUp”);

        await HttpContext.ChallengeAsync("Auth0", props);
    }

Then on the hosted login page, I tried to retrieve the parameter login_hint by examining config.extraParams.
However, extraParams did not contain login_hint.

So, not sure what’s going on?

a) did I pass the new parameter “login_hint” incorrectly from my controller?
b) was I correct in looking for “login_hint” in config.extraParams?

Appreciate any help.
Cheers John.

#5

Can you please check network trace in chrome to see if login_hint is included in /authorize request to auth0? If it’s include - it should be available in extraParams

#6

No - it’s not included.

Here is network trace:

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Here is debugging info from controller:

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Hope this helps.

#7

hmm, that’s strange. Apparently parameters is the 2nd argument in AuthenticationProperties. Can you try following please?

await HttpContext.ChallengeAsync("Auth0", new AuthenticationProperties(null,new Dictionary<string,object>(){ {"prompt","signup"} }));

Thanks,
Zulfiqar

#8

Thanks Zulfiqar for continuing to help.

I’m not a C# expert so I may be missing something.

If I try your code, I get an error as follows:

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ie saying that ‘AuthenticationProperties’ does not contain a constructor that takes 2 arguments.

If we then examine the AuthenticationProperties class we see the following:
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If I try something like:

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notice the message Property or indexer ‘AuthenticationProperties.Items’ cannot be assigned to – it is read only’
which corresponds to the class definition of Items ( get; }

Cheers, John