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SSO Login for Freshdesk support portal - ASP.Net C# Sample Code
static string GetSsoUrl(string baseUrl, string secret, string name, string email) {
var timems = (DateTime.UtcNow.Subtract(new DateTime(1970, 1, 1))).TotalSeconds.ToString();
return String.Format("{0}/login/sso?name={1}&email={2}&timestamp={3}&hash={4}",
baseUrl, Server.UrlEncode(name), Server.UrlEncode(email), timems, GetHash(secret, name, email, timems));
}
private static string GetHash(string secret, string name, string email, string timems) {
var input = name + secret + email + timems;
var keybytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(secret);
var inputBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(input);
var crypto = new HMACMD5(keybytes);
var hash = crypto.ComputeHash(inputBytes);
return hash.Select(b => b.ToString("x2"))
.Aggregate(new StringBuilder(),
(current, next) => current.Append(next),
current => current.ToString());
}
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darkpssngr commented Oct 4, 2016

@CGijbels Updated the gist. Thanks :)

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Can you update the code to say 'seconds' or 'times' instead of 'timems'? I was thinking it was supposed to be in milliseconds because of the variable name. You could use DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeSeconds() instead of doing the date math...

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