IdentityModel.OidcClient 6.0.0

About IdentityModel.OidcClient

IdentityModel.OidcClient is an OpenID Connect (OIDC) client library for native applications. It provides

• Types that describe OIDC requests and responses
• Low level methods to construct protocol state and handle responses
• Higher level methods for
  • Logging in
  • Logging out
  • Retrieving userinfo
  • Refreshing tokens

Samples

IdentityModel.OidcClient targets .NET Standard, making it suitable for .NET and .NET Framework. It can be used to build OIDC native clients with a variety of .NET UI tools. The samples repository shows how to use it in

• .NET MAUI
• WPF with the system browser
• WPF with an embedded browser
• WinForms with an embedded browser
• Cross Platform Console Applications (relies on kestrel for processing the callback)
• Windows Console Applications (relies on an HttpListener - a wrapper around the windows HTTP.sys driver)
• Windows Console Applications using custom uri schemes

Documentation

More documentation is available here.

Standards and Certification

IdentityModel.OidcClient is a certified OpenID Connect relying party implementation, and implements RFC 8252, "OAuth 2.0 for native Applications".

Related Packages

• Library for claims-based identity, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect: IdentityModel
• Id token validator for IdentityModel.OidcClient based on the Microsoft JWT handler: IdentityModel.OidcClient.IdentityTokenValidator
• DPoP extensions for IdentityModel.OidcClient: IdentityModel.OidcClient.DPoP
• Authentication handler for introspection tokens: IdentityModel.AspNetCore.OAuth2Introspection

Feedback

IdentityModel.OidcClient is released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Bug reports and contributions are welcome at the GitHub repository.