Authorization code authentication flow

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End Users accessing Customer portal (Authentication Flow)
Customer
Portal
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Call WSO2 OAuth Api to generate
Access token (API client id & secret)
Return WSO2 API access token
WSO2 API
Manager
WSO2 Identity
Server
authcode in redirect URL
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Verify application from
service provider and
generate authorize code
authcode in redirect URL
End User
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Get Authorize code (WSO2 IAM
client id, secret, callback URL)
User Login Success
Response
Request
Get Authorize code (API access token)
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7 authorize (username, password,
authcode, API access token)
8 authorize (username, password,
authcode)
User Token response
Verify User credentials and
generate user access token
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PostLogin API (POST or GET)
API Access Token, User Token
Backend Server
User Token Response
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Save or Fetch Data
from backend
API Response
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API Response
Machine To Machine Authentication (Token API)
• Step 1: When portal starts, the application will call WSO2
API Manager OAuth API to generate token (by providing
client id & secret).
• Step 2: When request lands on API Manager, it
authenticates the client id & secret and generate access
token. The token is then returned to the calling application
Generate WSO Identity server Auth Code
• Step 3: Portal calls API to fetch authcode. API Manager
access token is passed as request parameter.
• Step 4: API Manager verifies the access token and call
the WSO2 identity server to generate Auth code.
• WSO2 client id, secret and callback URL are
passed as input parameters.
• Step 5: WSO2 identity server verifies credentials and
respond with redirect URL
• Step 6: After successful verification, the redirect URL is
returned to the portal via API manager along with
authcode. The user will be shown or portal is redirected to
the WSO2 Sign in page
Authorize End User API
• Step 7: After taking user credentials as input & submitting
request, the Authorize API is called from portal
application.
• Step 8: API Manager calls WSO2 Identity server
authorize API along with user credentials and authcode.
• Step 9: WSO2 Identity server authenticates the request
by verifying the credentials and authcode.
• Step 10: After successful user authentication, Identity
server generates user access token and return to the
portal through API manager.
Post Login APIs
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