Daemon in MS Graph

Question

Hello Community,

I have seen more than once that (in for ConfidentialClientApplicationBuilder) WithRedirectUri has a "https://daemon" in it. But what is "https://daemon" good for ?

I would be very happy about an answer.

Answer 1

Daemon is good for confidential clients that run on the serve side without user interaction commonly when using Client Credentials Flow. See Public client and confidential client applications for more info and when to use which client.

Answer 2

Hi @APIPointNewbie ,

Confidential Client Application are applications that uses client id and secret to call Azure AD to get the access tokens and run on servers(webapps, webAPI apps, daemon apps).

Redirect URI is optional for confidential client applications

1. It need to specify redirect URI in case of webApp calling WebAPI, then Azure AD will use the URI to send back the token to webApp.
2. For daemon apps, redirect URI is not required.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/msal-client-application-configuration#redirect-uri-for-confidential-client-apps

Thanks,
Shweta