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MANAS PATNAIK 2020-07-21 20:07:22 +05:30 committed by Bruno Oliveira da Silva
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==== Validating Access Tokens
If you need to manually validate access tokens issued by {project_name} you can invoke the <<_token_introspection_endpoint,Introspection Endpoint>>.
The downside to this approach is that you have to make a network invocation to the {project_name} server. This can be slow and possibily overload the
The downside to this approach is that you have to make a network invocation to the {project_name} server. This can be slow and possibly overload the
server if you have too many validation requests going on at the same time. {project_name} issued access tokens are https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7519[JSON Web Tokens (JWT)] digitally signed and encoded using https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7515.txt[JSON Web Signature (JWS)].
Because they are encoded in this way, this allows you to locally validate access tokens using the public key of the issuing realm. You can either hard code the
realm's public key in your validation code, or lookup and cache the public key using the <<_certificate_endpoint, certificate endpoint>> with the Key ID (KID) embedded within the