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[Private/Anonymous Server] Authenticate Session Ticket

Our game offers both official and private servers.

PlayFab's Server.AuthenticateSessionTicket(...) requires a title secret key in the request header. This is not an issue for official servers as we are in control of the infrastructure and can provide our own secret key, however how would private servers handle authentication? Currently we are using Steam's anonymous ISteamGameServer.BeginAuthSession(...) to authenticate connecting Steam players. Is there an anonymous alternative on PlayFab's side that we are missing?

How are other titles handling this issue?

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To call Authentication - Authenticate Session Ticket - REST API (PlayFab Server) | Microsoft Learn, you have to set the Secret key, since there is no anonymous version of this API. If you cannot let your private server have the Secret key, then you can call this API in Azure Function.

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This is the approach we went with. Thank you.

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