Redirect Users to Secure URLs

Available in: Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

Add protected URL redirect parameters to your SSO client configuration URLs. For example, you set up a Google authentication provider and configure SSO for your Salesforce org. You want to redirect users to a page in your org that confirms successful login, so you add the startURL parameter to your SSO client configuration URL. A user logs in to your org and is redirected to Google to provide credentials. Then they’re redirected to the login confirmation page in your org.

The URL redirect parameters are not case-sensitive. For example, both retURL and returl redirect users after they click the Back button.

Protected URL Redirect Parameters

Parameter	Usage
startURL	Redirect users after authenticating
retURL	Redirect users when they click the Back button
saveURL	Redirect users when they click the Save button
cancelURL	Redirect users when they click the Cancel button

For the startURL parameter, you must use a relative URL. If you use an absolute URL, you get an error. If you don’t add startURL, Salesforce sends the user to /home/home.jsp for a standard application or portal, or to the default sites page for a site.

For the Single Sign-On Initialization URL, startURLsends users to the location you specified after they log in. The Continue to Salesforce link on the confirmation page leads to the Existing User Linking URL.