Accessing Session Id and API Server URL parameters with Visualforce

February 1st, 2009

There is a very interesting post over at the Salesforce.com blog with sample code for integrating Salesforce.com’s session ID and server URL with composite applications. I never thought about this approach before but it may sure come in handy in the future.

Categories: Salesforce, Visualforce

4 Comments

Deepak April 2nd, 2010
Hi Jeff,
Can you please let me know if i have the session id of other salesforce user session than can I call some VF page with that user scope.
Jeff Douglas April 2nd, 2010
Deepak, once you authenticate and receive a session, the calls to salesforce use that user’s security settings and privileges.
Venkatesh June 6th, 2011
We are trying to build website using force.com sites.we are using one custom object as to store sign up details of user.
After login into website we want to maintain session for the user till he logged out from site.we are using Record id of the Custom object as the user id.Can i pass this one to other visuvalforce pages as a session parameter.Can you please give a sample code for this?

Thanks and Regards,
venkatesh.
Jeff Douglas July 21st, 2011
@Venkatesh, I think if you are trying to develop your own authentication mechanism with Force.com Sites you may run into some licensing issues.