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How does API validate access token?
An access token is meant for an API and should be validated only by the API for which it was intended….If any of these checks fail, the token is considered invalid, and the request must be rejected with 401 Unauthorized result.
- Perform standard JWT validation.
- Verify token audience claims.
- Verify permissions (scopes).
What is access token in API?
Access tokens are the thing that applications use to make API requests on behalf of a user. The access token represents the authorization of a specific application to access specific parts of a user’s data. Access tokens must be kept confidential in transit and in storage.
How to validate access token in Azure AD OAuth?
I assume that you use the default configuration for Azure AD OAuth 2.0 which returns JWT-encoded tokens. There are few benefits of this type of tokens – you could extract information such as granted scopes from the token itself and you could avoid sending a validation request to the Authorization server by checking the token signature.
When do I need to validate my access token?
However, caching it for at least 24 hours would be a good idea. Basically the one who generated the access token should be responsible for validating it which is usually the authorization server, I understand Azure is your authorization server so there where you should validate your token
How to validate access token in Spring Boot?
I am using Azure AD OAuth 2.0 authorization flow for my Spring Boot Microservices + Angular2 application. (1st request to my Spring Boot application from frond-end) Spring boot application redirect it Azure login page.
What is the result of validation in OAuth?
The result of a validation is an AccessToken object, which is a holder of a raw token, plus it has a helper method that returns a Collection of GrantedAuthorities, in our case Keycloak roles.