Login URL and External Applications

Are there any guidelines for finding the login URL's for External Applications? For example, if you want to set up E*Trade as an External Application, you go to https://www.etrade.com and look at the source. You find that form that submits the user id and password is thus:
<form name="myForm" action="/login.fcc" method="post" autocomplete="off" onsubmit="return populateTarget();">
However, setting the login URL to https://www.etrade.com/login.fcc fails.
Any suggestions on how to form this?

I went to https://www.etrade.com and looked at the source. I didn't get the same source that you got -- pI don't know why. I am in the United States, and perhaps you are notm and that makes the difference.
In the source I saw, the login <form> tag was:
<form name="myForm" onSubmit="doMagic()" method="post" autocomplete="off">
Looking at the javascript function "doMagic" I noticed that it sets two cookies before doing the submission. The "login.fcc" page may be failing the login request for lack of these cookies.
I also noticed that the script sets the action HREF with
document.myForm.action = "https://us.etrade.com/login.fcc";
(in the case where the locale is US).
Perhaps you need a specific country host for "login.fcc", not www.etrade.com.
-- Joshua

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Single Sign-On and External Applications Portlet

I would like to know how complicated would be to call an External Application with SSO (like Hotmail), outside the External Applications Portlet.
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Maria, I was experimenting with this last night, to answer your question, and I think a cool way of doing this would be the following:
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Single Sign-on and external applications

Hi,
Someone might be able to point me in the right direction about this.
I have registered each of my applications as external applications within Oracle Portal in order to avail of single sign-on.
This is fine to a point, but registering applications in this way still requires the user to enter a username and password once in order to login to the application the first time they use it, even though they have already logged into the Portal. As long as the user doesn't log out of the application they can close their browser and when they come back to the application they are still logged in.
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<displayName>config</displayName>
<value>icorp</value>
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<inputParameter class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.URLPortletParameter">
<name>database</name>
<displayName>database</displayName>
<value>server1</value>
<isMandatory>true</isMandatory>
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<showPage class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.http.URLRenderer">
<contentType>text/html</contentType>
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<authorizType>public</authorizType>
</securityManager>
</portlet>
</provider>

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-aMJAD.

Portal Login id and Credatinal pass to dot net application

Hi Experts,
I want to know is it possible to pass the portal login id and other details like Name and organization to an dotnet application.
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Please do the needfull. Important
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Hi Sarbjeet,
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Swapnil

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regards,
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, p_ssouser    IN VARCHAR2
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, p_fval5      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname6     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval6      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname7     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval7      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname8     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval8      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname9     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval9      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_user_prefs IN VARCHAR2
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How do you harness URL external application in a JSP?

I have successfully deployed the Yahoo Finance sample URL External Application. However, I do not understand how to utilize the URL classes (in the pdkjava.jar) to harness the external application information once a user has authenticated. I am building a JSP portlet that displays and applet, however the applet requires a username and password. I need to get the Username and Password from external application, which it gets from the user via External Application. How do I get these values in my JSP (that is defined in my provider.xml)? I keep seeing documentation regarding the ExternalPrincipal object however I don't understand how to utilize this object in my JSP. I beleive the ExternalPrincipal object is what I need in my JSP, seeing that it has the methods for getting the user and password. Unless is there a better way of achieving this, can anyone shed some light on getting the ExternalPrincipal object for an External Application session?
Thanks,
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     <description>This portlet logs into analyzer</description>
     <timeout>100</timeout>
     <timeoutMessage>analyzer timed out</timeoutMessage>
          <showEdit>false</showEdit>
          <showEditDefault>false</showEditDefault>
          <showPreview>false</showPreview>
          <showDetails>false</showDetails>
          <hasHelp>false</hasHelp>
          <hasAbout>false</hasAbout>
          <acceptContentType>text/html</acceptContentType>
          <registrationPortlet>false</registrationPortlet>
          <accessControl>registered</accessControl>
          <renderer class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.RenderManager">
               <showPage class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.http.URLRenderer">
                    <pageUrl>http://catl0dv31.corp.cox.com/bic/analyzerIFrame.jsp?ap_doc=analyzer&ap_id=105</pageUrl>
                    <contentType>text/html</contentType>
               </showPage>
          </renderer>
          <securityManager class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.security.URLSecurityManager">
               <authorizType>registered</authorizType>
          </securityManager>
     </portlet>
</provider>
ExternalProviderInstance:
package com.cox.portal.provider;
import oracle.portal.provider.v2.*;
import oracle.portal.provider.v2.http.*;
import oracle.portal.provider.v2.externalApp.*;
public class ExternalProviderInstance extends URLProviderInstance
public static final String EXTERNAL_APP = "externalapp.object.key";
ProviderSession pSession = null;
public Object[] initSession(ProviderUser user, ExternalPrincipal externalApp)
throws ProviderException {
//UrlServicesUtils.logMessage("BasicURLProvider : Entering initSession.", getDebugLevel());
//Create/Retrieve provider user session.
if (mProviderDefinition.getHasSession()) {
// Create the session if it doesn't already exist.
pSession = user.getSession(true);
// Store external app in provider session so that other modules
// can extract it later.
if (pSession != null) {
pSession.setAttribute(EXTERNAL_APP, externalApp);
// Get javax.servlet.http.Cookie[] from user
javax.servlet.http.Cookie[] cookies = ((ServletProviderUser)user).getCookies();
if(cookies != null)
return cookies;
else
return null;

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How to load username and password for external application?
For each user, we should take its Portal username and password for one specific external application. How to do that ?
Regards.

ABSOLUTLY YES !!!!
We already know the external application login information for each user and we want to by pass this user task. (Specially because the user itself doesn't know its username/password for the external appli). In fact we are trying to integrate IStore product to Portal by using this mechanism.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kamalendu Biswas ([email protected]):
If you define an external application then SSO users can populate user information by themselves.
Are you syaing that you want to populate user information automatically (bulk lodad)?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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