Application architecture authentication component - Altinn Platform
The Authentication component is an a ASP.NET Core MVC Application exposing REST-API to Altinn Apps.
The solution is available at https://platform.altinn.cloud/authentication/api/v1.
Authenticate user
The authentication resource enables authenticating a user and redirecting it to another Altinn-url. If the user is not authenticated already it will be sent to the login page before redirecting the user to its final destination {url}.
GET /authentication?goto={url}
Refresh a valid JwtToken
GET /refresh
Exchange a JWT token from an external token provider
Accepted providers include: maskinporten and id-porten.
Request must include a bearer token in the authorization header.
Set test equal to true if retrieving a token for Testdepartementet.
(This ony works with maskinporten as the token provider.)
A token from id-porten contains both an id-token and and access-token.
Only the access token it to be exhanged using this endpoint.
GET /exchange/{tokenProvider}?test={bool}