How do I know if my Salesforce token is valid?
How to determine token expiration
- Use your access token until you receive a 401 HTTP status code, and only refresh it then.
- Use Salesforce’s token introspection endpoint to determine when the token expires.
Does Salesforce refresh token expire?
The refresh token is used indefinitely, unless revoked by the user or Salesforce admin. The user can use the current session (access token) already issued, but can’t obtain a new session when the access token expires.
How do I get a new refresh token in oauth2 Salesforce?
Request an Updated Access Token A connected app can use the refresh token to get a new access token by sending one of the following refresh token POST requests to the Salesforce token endpoint. The connected app can send the client_id and client_secret in the body of the refresh token POST request, as shown here.
How many times can you use a token?
2 Answers. Refresh tokens never expire, unless revoked by the user. You should store it safely and permanently. You should definitely not go back and get new refresh tokens over and over, because only a certain number can be understanding per user/app combination, and eventually the older ones will stop working.
What happens if you don’t use refresh tokens?
If you use refresh tokens, your code should first try the regular API call, and if you get a 4xx result, try using the refresh token to get a new session token, and if that fails, then you’ve been kicked out, and the user needs to re-authenticate to continue. If you don’t use refresh tokens, you can skip the middle step, obviously
What happens when token is refreshed in RESTful API?
In this case the client will immediately call the renew endpoint, if it returns 200 then the token is refreshed, but if renew also returns 401 then it means that the client is out of the system. Which of the two above alternatives would you recommend?
Is it possible to refresh an OAuth access token?
It’s up to the service you’re using to decide how long access tokens will be valid, and may depend on the application or the organization’s own policies. You can use this to preemptively refresh your access tokens instead of waiting for a request with an expired token to fail.
Do you need session verification in RESTful API?
The server, RESTful API, has to check the validity of the token that is being sent as the Authorization. That is not the responsibility of the Client. It seems like you are currently not doing this. Implement the verification of the JWT this way and you do not need sessions at all.