OIDC Discovery Endpoint
Learn how the OIDC Discovery endpoint allows clients to retrieve all necessary OIDC configuration information programmatically.
What is OIDC Discovery?
Imagine you're building an application that needs to connect to an OpenID Provider (IdP) like Google or Auth0. How do you know its authorization URL, token URL, or how to get its public keys?
Manually configuring these details for every IdP is tedious and error-prone. This is where OIDC Discovery comes in!
The Discovery Endpoint
OIDC Discovery provides a standardized way for clients to find all the necessary configuration information of an OpenID Provider.
Instead of hardcoding URLs, your client application can fetch a single JSON document from a well-known URL. This document contains all the endpoints and capabilities of the IdP.
All lessons in this course
- Dynamic Client Registration
- OIDC Discovery Endpoint
- Session Management
- Claims Request and aggregated Claims