OAuth Extensions

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Mar 13, 2022

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As a loose operating agreement and not a strict contract, OAuth intentionally leaves many things undefined. While frustrating at first glance, this is powerful. It gives us the flexibility to address new problems and use-cases, not envisioned by creators of the specification.

While OpenID Connect is the most popular extension of OAuth 2.0, some of the other useful extensions that are useful on a day-to-day basis are:

  1. JWT or JSON web token
  2. Token Revocation
  3. Token Introspection
  4. Dynamic Client Registration
  5. Authorization server metadata discovery

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