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    <p><strong>overview</strong><br> I have a legacy php system that is used for user management and authentication. It has a restful api to authenticate users. I say legacy because I do not believe the API adheres to modern standards and does not have proper documentation. From the documentation left</p> <blockquote> <p>...It (the API) can issues cookies, etc. Fields username, context, and password are required. setcookies is not required. The default value is TRUE, that is if setcookies is not explicitly set to false than cookies will be set.</p> <p>Response: HTTP 200 on success, 404 on failure.</p> <p>Example request:</p> <pre><code> &lt;logins&gt; &lt;login&gt; &lt;username&gt;[username/email]&lt;/username&gt; &lt;context&gt;[context]&lt;/context&gt; &lt;password&gt;[password, unhashed]&lt;/password&gt; &lt;setcookies&gt;[TRUE / FALSE]&lt;/setcookies&gt; &lt;/login&gt; &lt;/logins&gt; </code></pre> </blockquote> <p><strong>What I need:</strong> I have a few sites, site A and site B that live under the same top level domain. I need to be able to automatically logs users in site B when they login Site A and log users out in a similar manner.</p> <p><strong>Details</strong><br> At the moment, Site A works with the legacy API to sign the users in and it does it successfully. However, I am unable to detect that on Site B. My questions are</p> <ol> <li>What would should I be looking for in ideal situation? Perhaps a shared authentication cookie that should be shared?</li> <li>What data should the authentication cookie contain? </li> <li>And lastly how do I check if the user logged out on site B? should the cookie values change or I have make frequent service calls to verify the user is still logged in or logged out?</li> </ol>
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    1. COMany things depend on the specifics of your site, but a shared cookie may do it, as you mention they share the same top domain, setting the domain to something like ".mydomain.com" should do it.
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    2. COYes. I know that but What exactly do I do with the cookie info? What happens to the cookie when user logs out on site A or B? and so on and so forth?
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