Patent attributes
Providing access to an external application includes receiving login credentials to access a client instance, wherein the login credentials are associated with a user account, causing the client instance to provide a link to an external application in the client instance, detecting a request to navigate to the external application from the link, generating a authentication record for the user account and the external application, storing information for the user account based on the authentication record, and generating a URL for the external application based on the authentication record. Providing access to the external application also includes receiving, from a remote client device hosting the external application, an authorization request comprising nonce information, determining that the user account is authorized to access the external application based on the authentication table, and providing access to the external application.
