April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
7h 41m
English
OpenIddict offers various types of flows, including authorization code flow, password flow, client credentials flow, and others. However, we have used implicit flow in this chapter.
In implicit flow, the tokens are retrieved through the authorization endpoint by passing a username and password. All communication is done with the authorization server in a single round trip. Once the authentication is done, the token is added in the redirect URI and can be later used by passing in the request header for subsequent requests. The following diagram depicts how implicit flow works:

Implicit flow is widely used with Single-Page ...
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