[keycloak-dev] Keycloak.js is inefficient and can be improved

Bill Burke bburke at redhat.com
Mon Feb 9 19:10:25 EST 2015


No, Instagram is describing implicit flow.  Implicit flow has a problem 
in that access tokens can possibly be bookmarked and stored in browser 
history.  That isn't a problem with codes because codes are only active 
for a very short window (milliseconds).

On 2/9/2015 7:03 PM, Pedro Igor Silva wrote:
> I think Instagram does that [1], right ?
>
> [1] http://instagram.com/developer/authentication/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Monday, February 9, 2015 8:51:04 PM
> Subject: [keycloak-dev] Keycloak.js is inefficient and can be improved
>
> I had a good discussion on OAuth list about javascript and implicit flow
> vs. auth-code flow.  It was pointed out that auth-code flow has some
> extra hops that can be avoided if you implement "response_mode=fragment".
>
> See this:
>
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-1033
>
>

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