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Analysts and developers of integrators who want to call a secured Informatie Digitaal Vlaanderen API and need to know how to authorize.

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Help you decide the most suitable method to connect to the Informatie Digitaal Vlaanderen REST APIs
Provide a step-by-step explanation of how to get authorization to use the secured Informatie Digitaal Vlaanderen REST APIs with your chosen method.

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Term	Definition
Resource Owner	The entity that can grant access to a protected resource. Typically, this is the end-user.
Client	An application requesting access to a protected resource on behalf of the Resource Owner.
Resource Server	The server hosting the protected resources. These are typically the secured Informatie Digitaal Vlaanderen REST APIs.
Authorization Server	The server that authenticates the Resource Owner and issues Access Tokens after getting proper authorization. In this case this is the Informatie Digitaal Vlaanderen Authorization Server (oauthauthenticatie.vlaanderen.be)
Access Token	A credential that can be used by an application to access an API.
Refresh Token	A long-lived token that is used to obtain a new Access Token after a previous one has expired.
JSON Web Key	A JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data structure that represents a cryptographic key. This will be used to establish asynchronous authentication.

How to obtain your oauth Client from Digitaal Vlaanderen?

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Our helpdesk will set up the requested oauth client and send an e-mail containing a link to a page to manage his registered client(s).

Next step: find the most suitable way to connect.You can obtain access to the GIPOD API trough the self-service portal "Beheerderportaal". There are two environments: