Industrial Internet Application Development

Client Credentials Grant flow

The following illustration shows the typical flow of the client credentials authentication flow:

Sequence of interaction to initiate the client credentials

Steps for performing the client credentials are detailed as follows:

1. The application authenticates with Auth0 using its client ID and client secret
2. Auth0 validates this information and returns an access token
3. The application can use the access token to call the API on behalf of itself

Once the service is granted the token, it does not need to be authenticated again until the token has expired. This improves performance because the expensive authentication ...