How to Use the External Web Authentication Provider

Make an Ajax call to the z/Scope Anywhere external authentication handler to validate the external credentials. For example:

function authenticateUser(serverurl, params, callback) {

if (!serverurl)serverurl = "";

if (serverurl.lastIndexOf("/") == serverurl.length - 1)

serverurl = serverurl.substring(0, serverurl.length - 1);

var cd = serverurl != "";

var dt = serverurl == ""? "html" : "jsonp";

$.ajax({

url: serverurl + "/authprov/?" + params,

crossDomain: cd,

dataType: dt,

statusCode: {

200: function (data) {

var url = cd? data.url : data;

if (url.indexOf("://") > 0) serverurl = "";

if (callback) {

callback(serverurl + url);

}

else {

location.href = serverurl + url;

}

});

}

function sendRequest(params) {

authenticateUser("http://zscope.anywhere.server:8023",

params,

function(url) {

location.href = url;

});

}

</script>

Use the sendRequest function with parameters specific to your authentication page so it can identify the user and return the appropriate values to z/Scope Anywhere.

You can, for instance, call the sendRequest function with your website’s session identifier. As in this example: sendRequest("mySessionID=12345678&myUserID=JDoe")

z/Scope Anywhere will forward these parameters to the validation URL and will return a new location URL.