Yes, that's true (even for some open source software too).
So am I supposed to put this JWT access token into the Authorization request header as Bearer value to authorize a request?
The access token I got from Keycloak is over 5000 characters long!


On 05.02.2016 13:47, Raghuram Prabhala wrote:
Access token is implementation specific. Some commercial software have the concept of "reference tokens" which are nothing but random strings indicated below. The clients have to query back the Authorization server to get a validated JWT token




From: Stian Thorgersen <sthorger@redhat.com>
To: manfred.duchrow@caprica.biz
Cc: keycloak-user <keycloak-user@lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] access_token always contains JWT

There's no such thing as a "simple token". Tokens are always a signed JWT.

On 5 February 2016 at 11:17, <manfred.duchrow@caprica.biz> wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to retrieve an access token from a Keycloak (1.8.0.Final)
service account by
POST /auth/realms/myrealm/protocol/openid-connect/token
with grant_type=client_credentials.

The result contains a signed JWT as value of field "access_token" rather
than a simple token
as described in chapter 18 (Service Accounts) of the user guide.

So what I expect (need) is a response like this:

{
    "access_token":"2YotnFZFEjr1zCsicMWpAA",
    "token_type":"bearer",
    "expires_in":60,
    "refresh_token":"tGzv3JOkF0XG5Qx2TlKWIA",
    "refresh_expires_in":600,
    "id_token":"tGzv3JOkF0XG5Qx2TlKWIA",
    "not-before-policy":0,
    "session-state":"234234-234234-234234"
}

Is there a way to configure the account or the realm to return a simple
token
in "access_token" (and "refresh_token") rather than a JWT?

Cheers,
  Manfred



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