Using a sessionId to authenticate in SalesForce via frontdoor.jsp

[bensullivan]

Hi

We need to bypass the email verification security for SalesForce in order to run automated tests on VMs with dynamically assigned IPs (so we can't use whitelisting in this situation).

Reading other posts it seems my best option is to obtain a sessionId from the SOAP API and then use it with the following URL in order to authenticate into SalesForce:

https://test.salesforce.com/secur/frontdoor.jsp?sid=<my session id>

This isn't working and I just get a message saying:

You have attempted to access a page that requires a salesforce.com login. If you are already a user of the system, please login below.

Does anyone know of any tips that might get me around this problem?

Many thanks

Ben

[vchaddha]

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