Format for "default audience" must be URI. But API Identified can be standard string

[warrenjday]

It is explained that the default audience in tenant settings should be an API identifier. An API identifier can be a string like “my-cool-api” but the default audience only accepts a string in the format of a uri. So if I wanted the default audience to be “my-cool-api” I would see the error ““Default Audience” must be a valid uri”.

I am confused by this inconsistency. Could someone shed some light on this?

[dan.woda]

Hi @warrenjday,

As it says when you are creating the API:

We recommend using a URL but note that this doesn’t have to be a publicly available URL, Auth0 will not call your API at all. This field cannot be modified.

Do you have a use-case where it needs to be a non-uri string?

[warrenjday]

Hey Dan, no use-case, I was just wondering why a non-url format would ever be allowed here if it cannot be used elsewhere.

As you mention it is the recommendation so i’ll go ahead and create a new API with a new URL-like id.