Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Acquiring access tokens using the implicit grant flow

To acquire an access token using the implicit grant flow, we need to involve a web browser. Open the URL in a web browser that accepts the use of self-signed certificates, for example, Chrome. Then perform the following steps:

1. To get an access token for the reader client open the URL, https://localhost:8443/oauth/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=reader&redirect_uri=http://my.redirect.uri&scope=product:read&state=48532. When asked to login by the web browser, use the credentials specified in the configuration of the authorization server, for example, magnus and password:

2. Next, ...