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...With its pluggable strategies it can support all kinds of authentication and authorization mechanisms. it maintains a client-side session and synchronizes its state across multiple tabs/windows of the application. it authenticates the session against the application's own server, external providers like Facebook etc. The session service is the main interface to the library. It provides methods for authenticating and invalidating the session as well as for setting and reading session data. The session store persists the session state so that it survives a page reload. It also synchronizes the session state across multiple tabs or windows of the application so that e.g. a logout in one tab or window also results in a logout in all other tabs or windows of the application.

A client-side JavaScript SDK for authenticating with OAuth2 (and OAuth1 with an OAuth proxy) web services and querying their REST APIs. HelloJS standardizes paths and responses to common APIs like Google Data Services, Facebook Graph and Windows Live Connect. It’s modular, so that list is growing. No more spaghetti code! Compiled source, which combines all of the modules, can be obtained from GitHub, and source files can be found in Source. The Bower package shall install the aforementioned "/src" and "/dist" directories. The "/src" directory provides individual modules which can be packaged as desired. ...

passport-facebook is a Passport strategy for authenticating users with their Facebook credentials using the OAuth 2.0 protocol, enabling Node.js applications to let visitors log in with their Facebook account easily. It manages the redirection to Facebook’s login page, the authorization code exchange, and the retrieval of basic profile information, reducing the boilerplate developers would otherwise write to integrate with Facebook’s API manually.

...What it does is to set cookies for each domain through using iframes, which load some connect.php file that is placed on the other remote domains which needs authentication from phpbb. This is how numerous sites like facebook do it. Currently there is no other way of legally setting cookies for different domains than the one that is active. You have to have a page that loads up all the cookie setting codes from remote domains. However the loading up of authentication page, the remote authenticator pages in their iframes, and the redirection is VERY fast, taking only 1 seconds or 1.5 seconds. just like how you see in facebook etc - or any other site that uses this method. ...