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> Learn how the OIDC-conformant pipeline affects the Authorization Code Flow.

# Authorization Code Flow with OIDC

export const AuthCodeGroup = ({children, dropdown}) => {
  const [processedChildren, setProcessedChildren] = useState(children);
  useEffect(() => {
    let unsubscribe = null;
    function init() {
      unsubscribe = window.autorun(() => {
        const processChildren = node => {
          if (typeof node === "string") {
            let processedNode = node;
            for (const [key, value] of window.rootStore.variableStore.values.entries()) {
              const escapedKey = key.replaceAll(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, (String.raw)`\$&`);
              processedNode = processedNode.replaceAll(new RegExp(escapedKey, "g"), value);
            }
            return processedNode;
          } else if (Array.isArray(node)) {
            return node.map(processChildren);
          } else if (node && node.props && node.props.children) {
            return {
              ...node,
              props: {
                ...node.props,
                children: processChildren(node.props.children)
              }
            };
          }
          return node;
        };
        setProcessedChildren(processChildren(children));
      });
    }
    if (window.rootStore) {
      init();
    } else {
      window.addEventListener("adu:storeReady", init);
    }
    return () => {
      window.removeEventListener("adu:storeReady", init);
      unsubscribe?.();
    };
  }, [children]);
  return <CodeGroup dropdown={dropdown}>{processedChildren}</CodeGroup>;
};

export const AuthCodeBlock = ({filename, icon, language, highlight, children}) => {
  const [displayText, setDisplayText] = useState(children);
  const [copyText, setCopyText] = useState(children);
  const wrapperRef = React.useRef(null);
  useEffect(() => {
    let unsubscribe = null;
    function init() {
      if (!window.autorun || !window.rootStore) {
        return;
      }
      unsubscribe = window.autorun(() => {
        let processedChildrenForDisplay = children;
        let processedChildrenForCopy = children;
        for (const [key, value] of window.rootStore.variableStore.values.entries()) {
          const escapedKey = key.replaceAll(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, (String.raw)`\$&`);
          let displayValue = value;
          if (key === "{yourClientSecret}" && value !== "{yourClientSecret}") {
            displayValue = value.substring(0, 3) + "*****MASKED*****";
          }
          processedChildrenForDisplay = processedChildrenForDisplay.replaceAll(new RegExp(escapedKey, "g"), displayValue);
          processedChildrenForCopy = processedChildrenForCopy.replaceAll(new RegExp(escapedKey, "g"), value);
        }
        setDisplayText(processedChildrenForDisplay);
        setCopyText(processedChildrenForCopy);
      });
    }
    if (window.rootStore) {
      init();
    } else {
      window.addEventListener("adu:storeReady", init);
    }
    return () => {
      window.removeEventListener("adu:storeReady", init);
      unsubscribe?.();
    };
  }, [children]);
  useEffect(() => {
    if (!wrapperRef.current) return;
    const originalWriteText = navigator.clipboard.writeText.bind(navigator.clipboard);
    let isOverriding = false;
    const handleClick = e => {
      const button = e.target.closest('[data-testid="copy-code-button"]');
      if (!button || !wrapperRef.current.contains(button)) return;
      isOverriding = true;
      navigator.clipboard.writeText = text => {
        if (isOverriding) {
          isOverriding = false;
          navigator.clipboard.writeText = originalWriteText;
          return originalWriteText(copyText);
        }
        return originalWriteText(text);
      };
      setTimeout(() => {
        if (isOverriding) {
          isOverriding = false;
          navigator.clipboard.writeText = originalWriteText;
        }
      }, 100);
    };
    const wrapper = wrapperRef.current;
    wrapper.addEventListener('click', handleClick, true);
    return () => {
      wrapper.removeEventListener('click', handleClick, true);
      if (navigator.clipboard.writeText !== originalWriteText) {
        navigator.clipboard.writeText = originalWriteText;
      }
    };
  }, [copyText]);
  return <div ref={wrapperRef}>
      <CodeBlock filename={filename} icon={icon} language={language} lines highlight={highlight}>
        {displayText}
      </CodeBlock>
    </div>;
};

The [Authorization Code Flow](/docs/get-started/authentication-and-authorization-flow/authorization-code-flow) is used by server-side applications that are capable of securely storing secrets, or by native applications through [Authorization Code Flow with PKCE](/docs/get-started/authentication-and-authorization-flow/authorization-code-flow-with-pkce).

The OIDC-conformant pipeline affects the Authorization Code Flow in the following areas:

* Authentication request
* Authentication response
* Code exchange request
* Code exchange response
* <Tooltip tip="ID Token: Credential meant for the client itself, rather than for accessing a resource." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=ID+token">ID token</Tooltip> structure
* <Tooltip tip="Access Token: Authorization credential, in the form of an opaque string or JWT, used to access an API." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=Access+token">Access token</Tooltip> structure

## Authentication request

### Legacy

```http lines theme={null}
GET /authorize?
    response_type=code
    &scope=openid email favorite_color offline_access
    &client_id=123
    &state=af0ifjsldkj
    &redirect_uri=https://app.example.com/callback
    &device=my-device-name
```

The `device` parameter is only needed if requesting a <Tooltip tip="Refresh Token: Token used to obtain a renewed Access Token without forcing users to log in again." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=refresh+token">refresh token</Tooltip> by passing the `offline_access` scope. To learn more, read, [Refresh Tokens](/docs/secure/tokens/refresh-tokens).

### OIDC-conformant

```http lines theme={null}
GET /authorize?
    response_type=code
    &scope=openid email offline_access
    &client_id=123
    &state=af0ifjsldkj
    &redirect_uri=https://app.example.com/callback
    &audience=https://api.example.com
```

* `favorite_color` is no longer a valid scope value.
* The `device` parameter is removed.
* The `audience` parameter is optional.

## Authentication response

The response from Auth0 is identical in both pipelines:

```json lines theme={null}
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: https://app.example.com/callback?
    code=SplxlOBeZQQYbYS6WxSbIA
    &state=af0ifjsldkj
```

## Code exchange request - Authorization Code flow

An authorization code can be exchanged in the same way in both pipelines:

<AuthCodeGroup>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl --request POST \
    --url 'https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token' \
    --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
    --data 'grant_type=authorization_code' \
    --data 'client_id={yourClientId}' \
    --data 'client_secret={yourClientSecret}' \
    --data 'code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE' \
    --data 'redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}'
  ```

  ```csharp C# theme={null}
  var client = new RestClient("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token");
  var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
  request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
  request.AddParameter("application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret={yourClientSecret}&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
  IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
  ```

  ```go Go theme={null}
  package main

  import (
  	"fmt"
  	"strings"
  	"net/http"
  	"io/ioutil"
  )

  func main() {

  	url := "https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token"

  	payload := strings.NewReader("grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret={yourClientSecret}&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}")

  	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

  	req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

  	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  	defer res.Body.Close()
  	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

  	fmt.Println(res)
  	fmt.Println(string(body))

  }
  ```

  ```java Java theme={null}
  HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token")
    .header("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
    .body("grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret={yourClientSecret}&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}")
    .asString();
  ```

  ```javascript Node.JS theme={null}
  var axios = require("axios").default;

  var options = {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token',
    headers: {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
    data: new URLSearchParams({
      grant_type: 'authorization_code',
      client_id: '{yourClientId}',
      client_secret: '{yourClientSecret}',
      code: 'YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE',
      redirect_uri: '{https://yourApp/callback}'
    })
  };

  axios.request(options).then(function (response) {
    console.log(response.data);
  }).catch(function (error) {
    console.error(error);
  });
  ```

  ```php PHP theme={null}
  $curl = curl_init();

  curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret={yourClientSecret}&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
      "content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    ],
  ]);

  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  $err = curl_error($curl);

  curl_close($curl);

  if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
  } else {
    echo $response;
  }
  ```

  ```python Python theme={null}
  import http.client

  conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")

  payload = "grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret={yourClientSecret}&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}"

  headers = { 'content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }

  conn.request("POST", "/{yourDomain}/oauth/token", payload, headers)

  res = conn.getresponse()
  data = res.read()

  print(data.decode("utf-8"))
  ```

  ```ruby Ruby theme={null}
  require 'uri'
  require 'net/http'
  require 'openssl'

  url = URI("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token")

  http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

  request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
  request["content-type"] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  request.body = "grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret={yourClientSecret}&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}"

  response = http.request(request)
  puts response.read_body
  ```
</AuthCodeGroup>

## Code exchange request - Authorization Code flow with PKCE

An authorization code can be exchanged in the same way in both pipelines:

<AuthCodeGroup>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl --request POST \
    --url 'https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token' \
    --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
    --data grant_type=authorization_code \
    --data 'client_id={yourClientId}' \
    --data code_verifier=YOUR_GENERATED_CODE_VERIFIER \
    --data code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE \
    --data 'redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}'
  ```

  ```csharp C# theme={null}
  var client = new RestClient("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token");
  var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
  request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
  request.AddParameter("application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&code_verifier=YOUR_GENERATED_CODE_VERIFIER&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
  IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
  ```

  ```go Go theme={null}
  package main

  import (
  	"fmt"
  	"strings"
  	"net/http"
  	"io/ioutil"
  )

  func main() {

  	url := "https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token"

  	payload := strings.NewReader("grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&code_verifier=YOUR_GENERATED_CODE_VERIFIER&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}")

  	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

  	req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

  	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  	defer res.Body.Close()
  	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

  	fmt.Println(res)
  	fmt.Println(string(body))

  }
  ```

  ```java Java theme={null}
  HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token")
    .header("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
    .body("grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&code_verifier=YOUR_GENERATED_CODE_VERIFIER&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}")
    .asString();
  ```

  ```javascript Node.JS theme={null}
  var axios = require("axios").default;

  var options = {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token',
    headers: {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
    data: new URLSearchParams({
      grant_type: 'authorization_code',
      client_id: '{yourClientId}',
      code_verifier: 'YOUR_GENERATED_CODE_VERIFIER',
      code: 'YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE',
      redirect_uri: '{https://yourApp/callback}'
    })
  };

  axios.request(options).then(function (response) {
    console.log(response.data);
  }).catch(function (error) {
    console.error(error);
  });
  ```

  ```php PHP theme={null}
  $curl = curl_init();

  curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&code_verifier=YOUR_GENERATED_CODE_VERIFIER&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
      "content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    ],
  ]);

  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  $err = curl_error($curl);

  curl_close($curl);

  if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
  } else {
    echo $response;
  }
  ```

  ```python Python theme={null}
  import http.client

  conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")

  payload = "grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&code_verifier=YOUR_GENERATED_CODE_VERIFIER&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}"

  headers = { 'content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }

  conn.request("POST", "/{yourDomain}/oauth/token", payload, headers)

  res = conn.getresponse()
  data = res.read()

  print(data.decode("utf-8"))
  ```

  ```ruby Ruby theme={null}
  require 'uri'
  require 'net/http'
  require 'openssl'

  url = URI("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token")

  http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

  request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
  request["content-type"] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  request.body = "grant_type=authorization_code&client_id={yourClientId}&code_verifier=YOUR_GENERATED_CODE_VERIFIER&code=YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_CODE&redirect_uri={https://yourApp/callback}"

  response = http.request(request)
  puts response.read_body
  ```
</AuthCodeGroup>

## Code exchange response

### Legacy

```json lines theme={null}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-store
Pragma: no-cache
{
    "access_token": "SlAV32hkKG",
    "token_type": "Bearer",
    "refresh_token": "8xLOxBtZp8",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "id_token": "eyJ..."
}
```

* The returned Access Token is only valid for calling the [`/userinfo`](https://auth0.com/docs/api/authentication#get-user-info) endpoint.
* A refresh token will be returned only if a `device` parameter was passed and the `offline_access` scope was requested.

### OIDC-conformant

```json lines theme={null}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-store
Pragma: no-cache
{
    "access_token": "eyJ...",
    "token_type": "Bearer",
    "refresh_token": "8xLOxBtZp8",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "id_token": "eyJ..."
}
```

* The returned access token is valid for optionally calling the API specified in the `audience` parameter and the [`/userinfo`](https://auth0.com/docs/api/authentication#get-user-info) endpoint (provided that the API uses `RS256` as the [signing algorithm](/docs/get-started/applications/signing-algorithms) and `openid` is used as a `scope` parameter). If you are not implementing your own <Tooltip tip="Resource Server: Server hosting protected resources. Resource servers accept and respond to protected resource requests." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=Resource+Server">Resource Server</Tooltip> (API), then you can use `https://{$account.namespace}/userinfo` as the `audience` parameter, which will return an opaque Access Token.
* A refresh token will be returned only if the `offline_access` scope was granted.

## ID token structure

### Legacy

export const codeExample21 = `{
    "sub": "auth0|alice",
    "iss": "https://{yourDomain}/",
    "aud": "123",
    "exp": 1482809609,
    "iat": 1482773609,
    "email": "alice@example.com",
    "email_verified": true,
    "favorite_color": "blue"
}`;

<AuthCodeBlock children={codeExample21} language="json" filename="JSON" />

### OIDC-conformant

export const codeExample22 = `{
    "sub": "auth0|alice",
    "iss": "https://{yourDomain}/",
    "aud": "123",
    "exp": 1482809609,
    "iat": 1482773609,
    "email": "alice@example.com",
    "email_verified": true,
    "https://app.example.com/favorite_color": "blue"
}`;

<AuthCodeBlock children={codeExample22} language="json" filename="JSON" />

The `favorite_color` claim must be added through an Auth0 Action. To learn more, read [Create Custom Claims](/docs/secure/tokens/json-web-tokens/create-custom-claims).

## Access token structure (optional)

### Legacy

```bash HTTP lines theme={null}
SlAV32hkKG
```

The returned access token is opaque and only valid for calling the [`/userinfo`](https://auth0.com/docs/api/authentication#get-user-info) endpoint.

### OIDC-conformant

export const codeExample23 = `{
    "sub": "auth0|alice",
    "iss": "https://{yourDomain}/",
    "aud": [
        "https://api.example.com",
        "https://{yourDomain}/userinfo"
    ],
    "azp": "123",
    "exp": 1482816809,
    "iat": 1482809609,
    "scope": "openid email"
}`;

<AuthCodeBlock children={codeExample23} language="json" filename="JSON" />

The returned access token is valid for optionally calling the API specified in the `audience` parameter and the [`/userinfo`](https://auth0.com/docs/api/authentication#get-user-info) endpoint (provided that the API uses `RS256` as the <Tooltip tip="Signing Algorithm: Algorithm used to digitally sign tokens to ensure the token has not been tampered with." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=signing+algorithm">signing algorithm</Tooltip> and `openid` is used as a `scope` parameter).

If you are not implementing your own resource server (API), then you can use `https://{$account.namespace}/userinfo` as the `audience` parameter, which will return an opaque access token.

## Learn more

* [Access Tokens with OIDC](/docs/authenticate/login/oidc-conformant-authentication/oidc-adoption-access-tokens)
* [External APIs with OIDC](/docs/authenticate/login/oidc-conformant-authentication/oidc-adoption-apis)
* [Client Credentials Flow with OIDC](/docs/authenticate/login/oidc-conformant-authentication/oidc-adoption-client-credentials-flow)
* [Implicit Flow with OIDC](/docs/authenticate/login/oidc-conformant-authentication/oidc-adoption-implicit-flow)
* [Refresh Tokens with OIDC](/docs/authenticate/login/oidc-conformant-authentication/oidc-adoption-refresh-tokens)
* [Resource Owner Password Flow with OIDC](/docs/authenticate/login/oidc-conformant-authentication/oidc-adoption-rop-flow)