Thank you @PitaJ , request module worked.

Once i get the ID from oAuthPlugin , i need to call an external URL to get additional profile attributes. so was trying somthing simple like this but its complaining on including the Ajax package. Is there any Utilities in NodeBB i could use for calls like this? Is it better to use the request library in nodebb to achieve this?

function getProfile() {
var url = 'https://www.example.com/jsp/getJsonProfile.jsp?iruserid=' + username
$.getJSON( url, {})
.done(function( data ) {
var myJSON = JSON.stringify(data);
console.log ("json" + myJSON);
if ( (typeof(data.displayname) !== "undefined")) {
console.log ("user is logged :" + data.displayname);
} else {
console.log ("user is not logged");
}
})
.fail(function() {
console.log( "error retrieving idaas user status" );
});
};

Do i need to run the link commands?

I am trying to create a custom plugin to read some cookie info created within the same domain but a different app. Its not able to read the plugin.json, is it valid Path to read local plugin thats not in Git.

{
"id": "nodebb-plugin-sso-xxx",
"name": "NodeBB XXX SSO",
"description": "NodeBB Plugin",
"url": "C:/NodeBB/NodeBB/plugins/",
"library": "./library.js",
"hooks": [
{ "hook": "filter:auth.init", "method": "getStrategy" }
]
}