Identity Server: new Application Profile for Server Web App

[michaeldz]

I have multiply clients - SPA and regular Server Web Application.
SPA and Identity server hosted together. Server-side Web App hosted on other site.
I used template for creating Identity server and SPA:

dotnet new blazorwasm --hosted --auth Individual

I defined client for SPA:

  "IdentityServer": {
    "Clients": {
      "MySPA": {
        "Profile": "IdentityServerSPA"
      }

For server side web application I have no ability to define configuration because there is no suitable profile.

It will be nice to have one more profile 'Server' (or something like) for server-side web application. It should works like SPA but also assign client secret.

There is method WithClientSecret in ClientsBuilder but marked as 'internal'. Also ClientSecret property defined in ClientDefinition class but nowhere called. This could be used for implementation.

[javiercn]

@michaeldz thanks for contacting us.

Our current integration with Identity Server is for SPA applications only. You can configure a web application in the same way you do today in IdentityServer by adding it to the list of Clients in the options. We don't have configuration support for that at the moment.

We've moved this issue to the Backlog milestone. This means that it is not going to be worked on for the coming release. We will reassess the backlog following the current release and consider this item at that time. To learn more about our issue management process and to have better expectation regarding different types of issues you can read our Triage Process.

[michaeldz]

If I configure clients outside scope of the configuration process of the library I'll have two configuration places - for SPA (or other supported by the library) and for other clients. This adds complexity for deployment. But I understand your position you should not support all possible cases for configuring clients.
So maybe it will be better solution to have ability to extend somehow the client configuration mechanism perhaps thru DI.