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Token Revocation

Revoking access tokens

After issuing an access token, a user or an admin can revoke it in case of theft or a security violation. You can do this by calling the Revoke API using a utility like cURL. The Revoke API's endpoint URL is https://localhost:9443/oauth2/revoke.

Note

You can also revoke refresh tokens. For more information, see Revoking a refresh token.

The parameters required to invoke the following API are as follows:

  • token - The token to be revoked

  • <base64 encoded (clientId:clientSecret)> - Use a base64 encoder to encode your client ID and client secret using the following format. WSO2 does not recommend the use of online base64 encoders for this purpose.

    <clientId>:<clientSecret> Thereafter, enter the encoded value for this parameter.

  • token_type_hint = This parameter is optional. If you do not specify this parameter, then WSO2 Identity Server (WSO2 IS) will search in both key spaces (access and refresh) and if it finds a matching token then it will be revoked. Therefore, if this parameter it not specified the token revocation process takes longer. However, if you specify this parameter then WSO2 IS only searches in the respective token key space, hence the token revocation process is much faster.

    curl -k -v -d "token=<ACCESS_TOKEN_TO_BE_REVOKED>" -H "Authorization: Basic <base64 encoded (clientId:clientSecret)>" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://localhost:9443/oauth2/revoke
    curl -k -v -d "token=<ACCESS_TOKEN_TO_BE_REVOKED>&token_type_hint=<access_token_or_refresh_token>" -H "Authorization: Basic <base64 encoded (clientId:clientSecret)>" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://localhost:9443/oauth2/revoke
    
    curl -k -v -d "token=a0d210c7a3de7d548e03f1986e9a5c39" -H "Authorization: Basic OVRRNVJLZWFhVGZGeUpRSkRzam9aZmp4UkhjYTpDZnJ3ZXRual9ZOTdSSzFTZWlWQWx1aXdVVmth" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://localhost:9443/oauth2/revoke
    curl -k -v -d "token=1d18ec65-6151-3499-9352-68afe64299c3&token_type_hint=access_token" -H "Authorization: Basic OVRRNVJLZWFhVGZGeUpRSkRzam9aZmp4UkhjYTpDZnJ3ZXRual9ZOTdSSzFTZWlWQWx1aXdVVmth" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://localhost:9443/oauth2/revoke
    curl -k -v -d "token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6IlpqUm1ZVE13TlRKak9XVTVNbUl6TWpnek5ESTNZMkl5TW1JeVkyRXpNamRoWmpWaU1qYzBaZz09In0.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.VD23nViK6Np1U8SQxulxrEVFZpnPT7dpr3UN0xm--PSLBRXucWgrdse9qig922o9CWGj4lYxdsdHnwzz3Vh-i1-114jGnf_o6K-ITmO2m0SyCOrzo5PWMYbeZpkKM9slWahrGJm18XqGu7aRZiEnN8cLCke-DsnQVJJcCaS_jTniAD_-DCk5VBUTdQP1yiekq-A5QjKp_dKAjMF-8PQPXpMU526fXMMauFTz65EEZ-BpwAvfSBwLnSGI1GQp7xF9VWytCBAWt4ZvK6e7Y6hrwH1p7KT4Nli6PZv6RxbalW0mI9vqknSJRhWtn0GQcw1FSymMi-QOo0M7LgwIp7ypuw" -H "Authorization: Basic OVRRNVJLZWFhVGZGeUpRSkRzam9aZmp4UkhjYTpDZnJ3ZXRual9ZOTdSSzFTZWlWQWx1aXdVVmth" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://localhost:9443/oauth2/revoke
    
    You receive an empty response with the HTTP status as 200. The following HTTP headers are returned:
    
        RevokedRefreshToken: 5e87a8235cd4d066e15c4c989f5ecf94
        Cache-Control: no-store
        Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST
        X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
        AuthorizedUser: [email protected]
        Pragma: no-cache
        RevokedAccessToken: a0d210c7a3de7d548e03f1986e9a5c39
        X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
        Access-Control-Allow-Headers: authorization,Access-Control-Allow-Origin,Content-Type,SOAPAction,Authorization
        Content-Type: text/html
        Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 07:51:46 GMT
        Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    
    Note that if you use an invalid access token, you still receive an empty response with the HTTP status as 200 but only the following HTTP headers are returned:
    
        Cache-Control: no-store
        Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST
        X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
        Pragma: no-cache
        X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
        Access-Control-Allow-Headers: authorization,Access-Control-Allow-Origin,Content-Type,SOAPAction,Authorization
        Content-Type: text/html
        Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 07:58:11 GMT
        Transfer-Encoding: chunked