REST API authentication methods and client permissions

Working with the Identity Cloud REST APIs requires you to understand at least two important concepts:

• The authentication method supported by the API endpoint. Identity Cloud REST APIs support a number of different authentication methods (Basic authentication, token-based authentication, etc.), but no single endpoint supports all these methods.

• Whether the endpoint supports the use of API client allow lists. Allow lists enable you to specify which IP addresses can be used to call an endpoint. Some Identity Cloud APIs support API client allow lists and some don't.

See the table below (and follow the links) to learn more about what you can and can't do with different Identity Cloud APIs.

See also

• Use different scopes in your configuration access tokens