docs: document getSsoCredentials/awaitSsoCredentials for Native to Web SSO - #1055
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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The documentation currently directs callers to place a session transfer token in a URL without safeguards against leakage through browser history, logs, referrers, or analytics; merge should wait until those protections are documented. A smaller gap around serialization per Auth0 instance also remains. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@EXAMPLES.md`:
- Line 3266: Update the session transfer token guidance near the website login
example to require HTTPS, warn against exposing the token through browser
history, logs, referrers, or analytics, and recommend redacting it by
immediately redirecting to a clean URL after use. Also document the cookie-based
approach where supported.
- Around line 3273-3335: Add documentation near the credentials-manager request
examples stating that both manager types serialize operations through
authenticationClient.executor and Auth0.executor; clarify that managers sharing
an Auth0 instance are serialized, while managers backed by separate Auth0
instances may issue overlapping requests against the same storage.
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| To log the user in to your website without asking them to authenticate again, exchange the stored [refresh token](https://auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/refresh-tokens) for a session transfer token. Add that token to the URL when opening your website from your app — for example, `https://example.com/login?session_transfer_token=THE_TOKEN` — and have your website redirect the user to Auth0's `/authorize` endpoint, passing the token along. This works with any browser or web view, including standalone browser apps. |
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Add protections for sessionTransferToken URL exposure.
Line 3266 instructs callers to place a login token in the URL. Browser history, access logs, referrer headers, and analytics can expose the token before its single-use lifetime ends. Document HTTPS, URL redaction, immediate redirect to a clean URL, and the cookie-based option where supported.
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In `@EXAMPLES.md` at line 3266, Update the session transfer token guidance near
the website login example to require HTTPS, warn against exposing the token
through browser history, logs, referrers, or analytics, and recommend redacting
it by immediately redirecting to a clean URL after use. Also document the
cookie-based approach where supported.
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This is the native to Web authentication and is expected to pass the token via the url
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- Session transfer token references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'sessionTransferToken|session_transfer_token|ssoExchange|getSsoCredentials|awaitSsoCredentials' \
-g '!EXAMPLES.md' \
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printf '%s\n' '--- Relevant examples documentation ---'
rg -n -C 5 'session transfer token|sessionTransferToken|session_transfer_token|cookie' EXAMPLES.mdLength of output: 93493
@pmathew92, verified. The SDK documents session_transfer_token as a URL query parameter. The Native-to-Web SSO flow therefore requires URL transport in this case.
The review concern is about safe handling of that required URL transport. The token is single-use and short-lived, but the documentation should still tell website implementers to prevent token disclosure through logs, analytics, referrers, and browser history.
The existing Native-to-Web SSO section also documents a cookie-value alternative. The new Credentials Manager section should preserve or cross-reference that option.
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Summary
This PR updates the
Examples.mdto add a section forssoCredentialsvia the CredentialsManager bringing it in parity withAuth0.Swift