Ping SDKs

Step 4. Test the app

In the following procedure, you run the sample app that you configured in the previous step.

The sample connects to your PingFederate server to obtain the correct URIs to authenticate the user, and redirects the browser to your PingFederate server.

After authentication, PingFederate redirects the browser back to your application, which then obtains an OAuth 2.0 access token and displays the related user information.

Run the sample

  1. In a terminal window, navigate to the root of your sdk-sample-apps project.

  2. To run the embedded login sample, enter the following:

    npm run start:central-login

  3. In a web browser, navigate to the following URL:

    https://localhost:8443

    The sample displays a page with two buttons:

    Running the central login app

  4. Click Login.

    The sample app redirects the browser to your PingFederate instance.

    To see the application calling the authorize endpoint, and the redirect back from PingFederate with the code and state OAuth 2.0 parameters, open the Network tab of your browser’s developer tools.

  5. Authenticate as a known user in your PingFederate system.

    After successful authentication, PingFederate redirects the browser to the client application.

    If the app displays the user information, authentication was successful:

    Successful OAuth 2.0 authentication

  6. To revoke the OAuth 2.0 token, click the Sign Out button.

    In this tutorial, PingFederate redirects users back to the client application, ready to authenticate again.

Recap

Congratulations!

You have now used the Ping SDK for JavaScript to obtain an OAuth 2.0 access token on behalf of a user from your PingFederate server.

You have seen how to obtain OAuth 2.0 tokens, and view the related user information.

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