Response Parameters

Response Parameters

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Response Parameters

The following is an example of a response header.

POST http://www.mydomain.com/WebAuth/webauth-handler.aspx HTTP/1.1
…
action=login&
appctx=welcomepage&
stoken=MA12BCF0012BAM567890MABD123456ABCDEF12345667890

The POST body contains three parameters, described in the following table.

Parameter	Description
action	The action that the user is doing. The list of possible values is as follows: login—The user has completed a successful sign-in to your site. This value appears in the HTTP POST response only. clearcookie—The Windows Live ID sign-out page is calling your site to clear user cookies. This value appears in the HTTP GET response. logout—The user has completed a successful sign out from Windows Live. This value appears in the HTTP GET response. Note: The clearcookie action is always called before logout. For more information about working with the action parameter, see Handling the Response from the Service.
appctx	The context parameter you passed when constructing the src attribute for the IFRAME displaying the sign-in link. You can use this parameter to keep track of what page the user was on or other user-state information. For more information about the context parameter, see Displaying the Sign-in Link.
stoken	The encrypted data that contains the unique ID, application ID, timestamp, signature, and flags for the user. For more information about the token, see Token Format.

Parameter

Description

action

The action that the user is doing. The list of possible values is as follows:

login—The user has completed a successful sign-in to your site. This value appears in the HTTP POST response only.
clearcookie—The Windows Live ID sign-out page is calling your site to clear user cookies. This value appears in the HTTP GET response.
logout—The user has completed a successful sign out from Windows Live. This value appears in the HTTP GET response.

Note:

The clearcookie action is always called before logout.

For more information about working with the action parameter, see Handling the Response from the Service.

appctx

The context parameter you passed when constructing the src attribute for the IFRAME displaying the sign-in link. You can use this parameter to keep track of what page the user was on or other user-state information. For more information about the context parameter, see Displaying the Sign-in Link.

stoken

The encrypted data that contains the unique ID, application ID, timestamp, signature, and flags for the user. For more information about the token, see Token Format.

Concepts

Token Format