I am trying my best to fully understand the relationship between Applications, APIs, Audience, and Scopes within the world of Auth0 and oauth 2.0. I think the best way to illustrate the relationships is through an example. Let’s say I have a service topology for the following system 1 Application…

As referenced in the post above: [image] How to handle multiple API's using audience token? You can indeed authorize a second time to use a different audience and as a consequence obtain an access token suitable to another API, however, you mention that one of the two audiences being used is the…

Hi @matt.hintzke , Thank you for reaching out to us! I think the easiest way to understand these relationships is by understanding the Access Tokens. Access Tokens are used in token-based authentication to allow an application to access an API. The application receives an Access Token after a user …

Hi @matt.hintzke , Could you point me to the sample SPA (react) code to generate 2 access tokens for 2 different audiences ? We are building microservices architecture where we have 7 audiences and each audience (maps to separate resource server) needs to configured with different permissions in au…

I would like to see also example how to use multiple access tokens -jani-

Hi, Sorry for the huge delay. Please check this related post . Let me know if you have any more questions!

Understanding how the "audience" concept actually works

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ty.frith December 14, 2022, 4:25pm 9

Relevant FAQs for future reference

https://community.auth0.com/t/what-is-the-audience/71414

https://community.auth0.com/t/how-do-i-specify-multiple-audiences/10830

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