Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core

Adding a Web API

In the previous section, we implemented CAS and added an MVC web application. We used the implicit flow that returns the token to the client through the browser, which can be used by the client for further subsequent requests. However, APIs exposing the tokens over a browser channel is not a recommended approach, and there should be a mechanism that uses the client ID and secret to retrieve the access token and then use it to invoke secure methods.

IdentityServer4 introduces a new flow called Hybrid Flow, which is a combination of both OpenID and OAuth2.0 protocols. In this flow, the Identity token is transmitted via the browser channel on successful user authentication, whereas the access token is retrieved by the client ...