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- [Usage](#usage)
- [Requiring Authentication](#requiring-authentication)
- [Other Credentials](#other-credentials)
- [API credentials](#api-credentials)
- [SSO credentials](#sso-credentials)
- [Handling Credentials Manager exceptions](#handling-credentials-manager-exceptions)
- [Passkeys](#passkeys)
- [Bot Protection](#bot-protection)
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Call the API to fetch a webSessionTransferToken in exchange for a refresh token. Use the obtained token to authenticate the user by calling the `/authorize` endpoint, passing the token as a query parameter or a cookie value.

> [!TIP]
> If you store the user's credentials with a credentials manager, use [SSO credentials](#sso-credentials) instead. It reads the refresh token for you, stores the rotated one, and serializes concurrent requests. The method below does none of that.

```kotlin
authentication
.ssoExchange("refresh_token")
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```
</details>

> [!IMPORTANT]
> You don't need to store the `SSOCredentials`, as the session transfer token is single-use and short-lived. However, if you use [refresh token rotation](https://auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/refresh-tokens/refresh-token-rotation), the response contains a new refresh token that you must store in place of the previous one, which is now invalid.

## Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR)

This feature handles the browser authorization step of a [PAR (RFC 9126)](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9126.html) flow. It opens the `/authorize` endpoint with a `request_uri` obtained from your backend's PAR endpoint call, and returns the authorization code for your backend to exchange for tokens.
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However, if you need an access token for a different API, you can exchange the [refresh token](https://auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/refresh-tokens) for credentials containing an access token specific to this other API.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Currently, only the Auth0 My Account API is supported. Support for other APIs will be added in the future.

```kotlin

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#### SSO credentials

To log the user in to your website without asking them to authenticate again, exchange the stored [refresh token](https://auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/refresh-tokens) for a session transfer token. Add that token to the URL when opening your website from your app — for example, `https://example.com/login?session_transfer_token=THE_TOKEN` — and have your website redirect the user to Auth0's `/authorize` endpoint, passing the token along. This works with any browser or web view, including standalone browser apps.

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add protections for sessionTransferToken URL exposure.

Line 3266 instructs callers to place a login token in the URL. Browser history, access logs, referrer headers, and analytics can expose the token before its single-use lifetime ends. Document HTTPS, URL redaction, immediate redirect to a clean URL, and the cookie-based option where supported.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@EXAMPLES.md` at line 3266, Update the session transfer token guidance near
the website login example to require HTTPS, warn against exposing the token
through browser history, logs, referrers, or analytics, and recommend redacting
it by immediately redirecting to a clean URL after use. Also document the
cookie-based approach where supported.

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This is the native to Web authentication and is expected to pass the token via the url

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- Session transfer token references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'sessionTransferToken|session_transfer_token|ssoExchange|getSsoCredentials|awaitSsoCredentials' \
  -g '!EXAMPLES.md' \
  .

printf '%s\n' '--- Relevant examples documentation ---'
rg -n -C 5 'session transfer token|sessionTransferToken|session_transfer_token|cookie' EXAMPLES.md

Length of output: 93493

@pmathew92, verified. The SDK documents session_transfer_token as a URL query parameter. The Native-to-Web SSO flow therefore requires URL transport in this case.

The review concern is about safe handling of that required URL transport. The token is single-use and short-lived, but the documentation should still tell website implementers to prevent token disclosure through logs, analytics, referrers, and browser history.

The existing Native-to-Web SSO section also documents a cookie-value alternative. The new Credentials Manager section should preserve or cross-reference that option.

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Prefer this over [`ssoExchange`](#native-to-web-sso-login) whenever you store credentials with a credentials manager. It reads the refresh token from storage, persists the rotated refresh token for you, and runs on the manager's serial executor so concurrent calls can't trigger overlapping exchanges.

> [!CAUTION]
> Requests are only serialized within a single credentials manager instance. Share one instance across your app rather than creating several against the same storage.

```kotlin
credentialsManager.getSsoCredentials(object :
Callback<SSOCredentials, CredentialsManagerException> {
override fun onSuccess(result: SSOCredentials) {
print("Obtained SSO credentials: ${result.sessionTransferToken}")
}

override fun onFailure(error: CredentialsManagerException) {
print("Failed with: $error")
}
})
```

<details>
<summary>Using Coroutines</summary>

```kotlin
try {
val ssoCredentials = credentialsManager.awaitSsoCredentials()
print("Obtained SSO credentials: ${ssoCredentials.sessionTransferToken}")
} catch (error: CredentialsManagerException) {
print("Failed with: $error")
}
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Using Java</summary>

```java
credentialsManager.getSsoCredentials(new Callback<SSOCredentials, CredentialsManagerException>() {
@Override
public void onSuccess(SSOCredentials result) {
System.out.println(result.getSessionTransferToken());
}

@Override
public void onFailure(@NonNull CredentialsManagerException error) {
System.out.println(error);
}
});
```
</details>

An overload accepts a map of additional parameters to send with the exchange request:

```kotlin
credentialsManager.getSsoCredentials(
parameters = mapOf("some_parameter" to "some_value"),
callback = object : Callback<SSOCredentials, CredentialsManagerException> {
override fun onSuccess(result: SSOCredentials) {
print("Obtained SSO credentials: ${result.sessionTransferToken}")
}

override fun onFailure(error: CredentialsManagerException) {
print("Failed with: $error")
}
})
```

This fails with `CredentialsManagerException.NO_REFRESH_TOKEN` when no refresh token is stored, and with `CredentialsManagerException.SSO_EXCHANGE_FAILED` when the exchange itself is rejected. See [Handling Credentials Manager exceptions](#handling-credentials-manager-exceptions).

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### Handling Credentials Manager exceptions

In the event that something happened while trying to save or retrieve the credentials, a `CredentialsManagerException` will be thrown. These are some of the expected failure scenarios:
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