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Catamarans Website Authentication Against SalesForce
We are investigating deploying a revised login/registration authentication system that would instead authenticate against the SalesForce API.
However, there appear to be a number of possibilities, some better than others which are making the road map difficult.
These appears to be the possibilities, if one accepts we come from a limited .NET background:
1. Authenticate using 'delegated' authentication and encryption.
2. Some possibilities exist for leveraging the self-service portal to do the authentication....this seems more 'canned' and available?
However, it is not exactly clear how to achieve this.
3. Use something like DBAmp or DataScope to replicate data on our sql server. However, this poses two problems:
A. There is slight synchronization delay between the api server and our sforce account....thus, we would need double redundancy to replicate against the sql server and the api....phew.
B. There appears to be issues with something called 'open' connection to the SalesForce API....to mimimize delays the connection must remain open.
I have seen numerous posts relating to various ways to complete authentication on a company website using sforce as a backend.
However, they all seem problematic and clunky.
Is there any reason why canned applications have not been built by api developers for immediate deployment on a company website either in linux or windows flavors....It seems like a no brainer to me?
Failing that, is there is a suggested road map by Salesforce on implementing a website authentication against 'contacts' inside the database.
Any ideas or feedback much appreciated.
Thanks
Jason
SkowronekEmail me if you would like to know how we are doing this with various web applications.