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What is access token OpenID Connect?
OpenID Connect employs OAuth 2.0 access tokens to allow client apps to retrieve consented user information from the UserInfo endpoint. An OpenID provider may extend the access token scope to other protected resources and web APIs.
What is OIDC access token?
OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an identity layer built on top of the OAuth 2.0 framework. It allows third-party applications to verify the identity of the end-user and to obtain basic user profile information. This information is returned in a JWT. You’ll receive an access token and if requested, an ID token.
What does access token contain?
An access token is an object that describes the security context of a process or thread. The information in a token includes the identity and privileges of the user account associated with the process or thread.
How does the OpenID Connect ID token work?
OpenID Connect introduces the concept of an ID token, which is a security token that allows the client to verify the identity of the user. The ID token also gets basic profile information about the user. It also introduces the UserInfo endpoint, an API that returns information about the user.
How does the OpenID Connect protocol work with OAuth?
OpenID Connect extends the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol to use as an authentication protocol, so that you can do single sign-on using OAuth. OpenID Connect introduces the concept of an ID token, which is a security token that allows the client to verify the identity of the user.
How to get access token from ASP.NET Web API?
UPDATE: A SPA uses AJAX for communicating with my web service (ASP.NET Web API). In my web service a use OWIN Middleware. I set OpenIDConnect as the authentication mechanism. When the web service is called for the first time it successfully redirected the user to the login page of the OpenID Connect Provider.
What are the main considerations of OpenID Connect?
Considerations include the type of application (like web-based or native mobile app), how you want to validate tokens (in the app or in the backend), and how you want to access additional identity information (make another API call or have it encoded right into a token). There are three primary flows: Authorization Code, Implicit, and Hybrid.