By: Max Anderson Account Admin 26 Feb 2018 at 3:55 p.m. CST

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I'm trying to find out if is possible to persist a OpenID authentication if we redirect from a Native mobile app to a mobile web app? I'm assuming this is a yes or no answer, but my searching skills are not that great when asking the questions and I'm not finding anything to direct me to say that it is or isn't possible. Any direction or help is appreciated.

By William Lowe user 26 Feb 2018 at 4:44 p.m. CST

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Can you describe the use case a little further? The user is inside the native app, and then clicks a button and gets kicked out to a mobile web app? Typically in OpenID Connect, the session is stored in the browser. So if the person opens up a number of Google chrome browsers, they should have a session across all. But if they were to open two separate browsers, like Chrome and Mozilla, they would have to authenticate in both browsers. If its using the system browser, then they should get SSO across both apps. But if it's closer to the second scenario, the user would need to authenticate again in the new browser. Thanks, Will

By Max Anderson Account Admin 26 Feb 2018 at 5 p.m. CST

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We have a situation where we'd be in a native iPhone or Android app and we would link over to a web page that requires authentication with our SSO provider (OpenID Connect/Gluu) outside of the native app in their mobile browser. We want to know if the authentication session would persist where they wouldn't have to re login. Let me know if I'm still not explaining this correctly.

By William Lowe user 26 Feb 2018 at 5:03 p.m. CST

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So if the user already has a session in the web browser they are kicked out too, e.g. Safari or Chrome, then they wouldn't have to login again. If they do not already have a session in that browser, they would be required to login. All other apps leveraging that browser would inherit the SSO session. Does that help clarify?

By Max Anderson Account Admin 27 Feb 2018 at 9:05 a.m. CST

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Yep, I think that clarifies. Thanks!