Fall back to other token types when given incorrect hint during introspection#1607
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When the token type hint parameter is incorrect, we now fall back and try the other type of token (either refresh or access). But, we only do this for clients - apis cannot use refresh tokens, so they still get a response of { "isActive": false } if they attempt to introspect a refresh token. In either case, bogus token_type_hints are not an error anymore, either.
For reference, RFC 7662 Section 2.1:
> If the server is unable to locate the token using the given hint, it MUST extend its search across all of its supported token types.
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Brock and I discussed this, and we don't want to change default behavior here because there could be scenarios where you want to introspect a token even though you're not really "consuming" it (maybe some kind of gateway). And you can do this today via a decorator on the introspection request validator
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When the token type hint parameter is incorrect, we now fall back and try the other type of token (either refresh or access). But, we only do this for clients - apis cannot use refresh tokens, so they still get a response of { "isActive": false } if they attempt to introspect a refresh token. In either case, bogus token_type_hints are not an error anymore, either.
For reference, RFC 7662 Section 2.1:
Resolves #1578