How can I get the url and / or port number of a sails app before it lifts in /config? - sails.js

I'm building a Sails app. In it, I'm using passport-azure-ad. When setting up passport, I need to tell it where to send the user after they sign in (for example: http://localhost:1337/login/callback), which means I need to tell it the url of the current sails app. But sometimes, the app is on localhost:1337, sometimes it's on localhost:81, sometimes it's on localhost:3000, or if I'm using browser-sync, it's on 10.18.152.135:3000, and in production, it's on https://www.<my-domain>.com.
This passport strategy doesn't allow relative urls either. I need to send it the full absolute callback url.

Use environment-based config files to hard-code different domain URLs

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How to set AppClip invocation for URL with QueryParam?

I am trying to set the AppClip invocation for my App which is already released on app store.
I need an url such that it provides me a jobId e.g.: https://example.com/task?jobId=00001.
My use case is that I send the sms with the url https://example.com/task?jobId=00001 to the user, the user clicks on the url and the app gets started. Then for the other user I send the next url with corresponding jobId.
I did setup the AASA file for my domain (contains the JSON with "applinks" and "appclip" objects) which is valid, also the Domain status is valid on App Store Connect. There is a default experience set with title, subtitle, image and action. I also configured an advance experience for the url https://example.com/task.
However, my app clip doesn't get invoked if I access the url from either sms text or safari. :(
I do not have a web page for https://example.com/task therefore I haven't set up the meta data for this.
Is it possible to invoke the AppClip this way? It is really important for me that the URL is dynamic and I pass that jobId every time for each individual booking.
There s no much documentation and I already read at least twice Apple documentation about AppClip.
Because of this:
I do not have a web page for https://example.com/task therefore I haven't set up the meta data for this.
The answer to this:
Is it possible to invoke the AppClip this way?
Is no. Sorry, you need to own the domain you're working with, or at the very least have means to access its CNAME config (thus, be able to induce the owner of that domain to change the CNAME configs to what you want it to be, similar to what branch.io and AppsFlyer does with its users/clients).

Keycloak URL fragments do not disappear when logged in

Keycloak inserts session_state, state and code in url fragment params.. sometimes after successful login these remain on the url...
Or, when alternate routes are clicked in the app, these appear again.
Unnecessarily exposing the internals of keycloak params to users.
Is there some solution to not have these appear or delete them?
e.g. http://localhost:3000/home/#state=e625140e-c4f9-4500-858e-32c80e89f8a9&session_state=445229c3-d7eb-46e9-bfba-3339253dd17e&code=af0abde4-a60d-4f34-a101-8db5c76546b9.445229c3-d7eb-46e9-bfba-3339253dd17e.59915134-a59b-4ffb-878a-d02e7e84f2dd
Update:
with more tests narrowed down the issue to occur when
anything on the keycloak instance is touched. e.g. keycloak.token
any function call of keycloak is invoked... then after that these params get added and removed for every url route thereafter...
e.g. await keycloak.updateToken()
Keycloak Sever and js lib Version : 9.0.2
It is not a Keycloak issue. That's how used login flow works (maybe you need different flow, which will be more suitable for your use case). Your app code (used OIDC/OAuth library) should "clean" URL fragments. Cleaning can be: exchange code for the token (in this particular case), remove URL fragments, clean browser history, etc.

visitor id mid is not consistent across domains when i login from app and then from moving from app to web

Experience cloud vistor id is used. App, web are using same adobe launch library. When I login into app url change and mid changes and then if I navigate from app to web responsive page mid is changed and I am not seeing any cross-domain pathing report from app to web ?
anything do I need to do with s.cookiedomainperiod or anything to make this work?
The Experience Cloud Visitor ID is not automatically carried over from the native mobile app to a (mobile) web page. The long story short is native apps don't really store data locally in the same way as web browsers, so there's no automatic ability to use the same local storage mechanism/source between the two.
In order to do this, you must add some code to the mobile app to append the mid value to the target URL, e.g. :
Android
String urlString = "http://www.example.com/index.php";
String urlStringWithVisitorData = Visitor.appendToURL(urlString);
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(urlStringWithVisitorData));
startActivity(browserIntent);
iOS
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#”http://www.example.com/index.php"];
NSURL *urlWithVisitorData = [ADBMobile visitorAppendToURL:url];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:urlWithVisitorData];
If implemented properly, you should now see a adobe_mc= parameter appended to the target URL. Then on page view of the target page, if you have the Adobe Analytics javascript and Experience Cloud Visitor ID libraries implemented, they will automatically look for and use that value instead of generate a new value (should not require any config / coding on this end).
Update:
#Ramaiyavraghvendra you made a comment:
Hi #Crayon, mny thanks for your profound answer. I am sorry that i
missed to inform that this app is not native one but this is a SPA
app. so the implementation of entire app is also done through launch.
Could you pl help in this case then.
I'm not entirely sure I understand your issue. If you are NOT moving from a native mobile app to web page, and your mobile app is really a web based SPA that outputs Launch as regular javascript code throughout the entire app, then you shouldn't have to do anything; the Experience Cloud ID service should carry over the id from page to page.
So it sounds to me like perhaps your Experience Cloud Visitor ID and/or Adobe Analytics collection server settings are not configured correctly. the cookie domain period variables may be an issue, if logging in involves moving from say www.mysite.com to www.mysite.co.uk or similar, but shouldn't be a problem if the TLD has the same # of periods.
Or, the trackingServer and trackingServerSecure variables may not be configured properly. In practice, I usually do not set trackingServerSecure at all. These variables get kind of confusing and IMO buggy in different scenarios vs. what you are using, so I tend to use the "secure" value in the trackingServer field and leave the trackingServerSecure blank, and then Experience Cloud Visitor ID and Adobe Analytics will just use the secure version 100% of the time.
Or..it could be a number of other config variables not properly set. It's hard to say if any of this is off, without access to the app and Launch container.
Also you may want to check the response headers for your logged in pages. It may be that they are configured to reject certain existing non-https cookies or something else that effectively causes the existing cookies to be unreadable and make the Experience Cloud ID service generate a new ID and cookies.
Or.. maybe your app kind of is a native mobile app but using an http wrapper to pull in web pages, so it is basically a web browser but it is effectively like moving from one web browser to another (e.g. starting on www.site.com/pageA on Chrome, and then copy/pasting that URL over to Internet Explorer to view). So effectively, different cookie jar.
Launch (or DTM) + Experience Cloud ID (Javascript methods)
In cases such as the last 2 paragraphs, you have to decorate your target links the same as my original answer, but using the Launch + Experience Cloud ID Service javascript syntax:
_satellite.getVisitorId().appendVisitorIDsTo('[your url here]');
You write some code to get the target URL of the link. Then run it through this code to return the url with the parameters added to them, and then you update your link with the new URL.
Super generic example that just updates all links on the page. In practice, you should only do this for relevant link(s) the visitor is redirected to.
var urls = document.querySelectorAll('a');
for (var i = 0, l = urls.length; i < l; i++) {
if (urls[i].href) {
urls[i].href = _satellite.getVisitorId().appendVisitorIDsTo(urls[i].href);
}
}

FlowRouter Reload Doesn't Route

I'm using FlowRouter. If I start on the homepage everything works well. I can work through the routes (change the pages) without problem. However, if I hit refresh in the browser, I get a series of errors. My url looks like this:
/story/586d536e34821281735b53a4
The ID is being returned in console under the following method:
Tracker.nonreactive(function(){
I think the subscription is being completed, so I'm a little confused as to why reloading a url is different than loading from the home page.
What am I not understanding here?
Reloading a url will make a HTTP request to server to get all the application source. Whereas navigating to a route from another one does not make any HTTP requests to get the application source because they are already available (they were loaded from the previous route), in this case the router will just get the appropriate content and render on the page. This is normal behaviour for Meteor apps and all other single-page apps
The error you encounter is because your data is not yet available on client, to fix it you could simple use a placeholder if the value is undefined.

Flash ActionScript 3 get auth info within single SWF

I am developing flash application as single swf file, without HTML wrapper (but for sure I have this swf located at my hosting). I have create application at developers section. The problem I have faced is: when I post this SWF to the my wall at FaceBook I can not get any call from this SWF of the URLloader or ExternalItreface.
For example, I need to do Signed Request in order to get user information but I have got Security Error which say that my domain cannot get information from apps.facebook.com
The request I am doing is a simple:
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://apps.facebook.com/my_app_name");
Is there any way to inform faceebok that my hosting is a security save?
If you want to grab things cross domain, the easiest way is to use a script on your server. If you're using php, you can easily connect to http://my.domain/my_script.php which can then CURL the info from http://apps.facebook.com/my_app_name or anywhere else. You can then (parse and) pass that info to your swf.
Otherwise, you're going to need permission from the target to add a crossdomain rule for you.