OAuth 2.1 (IETF draft)
Official docs outline
9 sections- Introduction and roles
Roles, protocol flow, bearer vs sender-constrained tokens and differences from OAuth 2.0.
- Client registration and redirect URIs
Client types, exact redirect URI matching and client authentication.
- Authorization endpoint
Authorization request handling with PKCE-required code flow.
- Token endpoint
Token requests, errors and client authentication.
- Authorization code grant with PKCE
Authorization code flow where PKCE is mandatory.
- Client credentials grant
Confidential client access without a resource owner.
- Refresh token grant
Refresh token rotation and sender-constrained refresh tokens.
- Resource requests and bearer tokens
Bearer token transmission, validation and error responses.
- Security considerations
Threat mitigations: redirect handling, PKCE downgrade and token theft.
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