chore(discourse): Forward sso/sig to the login API when reached via Discourse SSO

[Nayor]

Summary

The auth-sso route already exists and is Discourse-SSO-aware (handles ?logout), but login() never actually read sso/sig from the query string or sent them to the API - it always POSTed just username/password/discourse: true. The API already supports verifying an incoming signed SSO payload and honoring its return_sso_url (c2corg/v6_api#2234), but nothing in the frontend ever exercised that path: every login took the redirect_without_nonce branch instead, which only ever targets the single production forum regardless of which Discourse instance actually initiated the login (relevant now that a second forum instance is being validated ahead of a migration).

Changes

• UserProfileService.login(): accepts optional sso/sig, includes them in the POST body when both are present.
• user.js signIn(): forwards them through.
• LoginView.vue signin(): reads sso/sig from this.$route.query, but only when this.$route.name === 'auth-sso', so unrelated query params on other routes are never sent along.
• LoginView.vue onSuccessSigin(): handles the API's redirect field (present for the nonce-based flow) with a real top-level navigation (window.location) - distinct from the existing redirect_internal hidden-iframe flow, which stays as-is for the plain "c2c login pushes a forum session in the background" case. A real navigation is needed here because the user came from Discourse and needs to actually land back on it, which an invisible iframe wouldn't do (and could also hit third-party cookie restrictions on Discourse's side).

Security note

sso/sig are already visible in the URL (not secrets client-side); the real check is server-side signature verification, unchanged by this PR. See c2corg/v6_api#2239 for a related hardening fix (an explicit host allowlist for return_sso_url) that this change makes practically relevant, since it's what actually starts exercising that code path in production.

Test plan

• Manually verify: log in normally (no sso/sig in URL) still works exactly as before.
• Log in via the beta forum instance's "Se connecter avec camptocamp.org" (after Restrict return_sso_url to an explicit allowlist of hosts v6_api#2239 and its deployment config companion land) and confirm the browser ends up back there, logged in.

Note: could not run the local build/lint here (broken node_modules in this checkout - missing vue-cli-service/@babel/eslint-parser), but the repo's pre-commit hook ran clean on the changed files.

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Walkthrough

The login API now accepts optional sso and sig values. The login view reads these values for the auth-sso route and handles top-level redirects before the existing iframe-based flow.

Changes

SSO login flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SSO parameter propagation src/js/apis/c2c/UserProfileService.js, src/js/vue-plugins/user.js	login and signIn accept sso and sig. The login payload includes both values when they are provided.
Login route and redirect handling src/views/user/LoginView.vue	The auth-sso route supplies query values to signIn. A returned redirect uses top-level navigation; otherwise, the existing redirect_internal iframe flow continues.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Route
  participant LoginView
  participant UserPlugin
  participant UserProfileService
  participant LoginEndpoint
  Route->>LoginView: provide auth-sso query values
  LoginView->>UserPlugin: signIn with sso and sig
  UserPlugin->>UserProfileService: forward login arguments
  UserProfileService->>LoginEndpoint: submit login request
  LoginEndpoint-->>LoginView: return redirect or redirect_internal data
  LoginView->>LoginView: navigate to redirect or use iframe SSO flow

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Successful SSO logins can throw instead of following the server-provided redirect, leaving users unable to complete the new login flow. Return the response before merging.

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In `@src/js/vue-plugins/user.js`:
- Line 76: Update the fulfillment callback in signIn to return the login
response so signIn resolves with the response object. Preserve the existing
c2c.userProfile.login call and ensure LoginView.onSuccessSigin can access
data.data.redirect after successful SSO login.

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