# Implicit Grant Flow

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/implicit-grant-flow/5690>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [April 10, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/implicit-grant-flow/5690 "2016-04-10T15:40:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![fredriklaason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dec6dc/32.png) [@fredriklaason](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/fredriklaason)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/implicit-grant-flow/5690/1 "2016-04-10T15:40:56Z")

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With the wide use of html5 history api I feel like the user should be redirect with a query string as default instead of hash.

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**Author:** ![3ventic](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/3ventic/32/298_2.png) [@3ventic](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/3ventic)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/implicit-grant-flow/5690/2 "2016-04-10T15:53:54Z")

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What would be the benefit?

As I see it, it would just unnecessarily share the access token with the web server that doesn’t need it, and it would make it harder to support older and less developed browsers.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/implicit-grant-flow/5690/3 "2016-05-10T15:54:10Z")

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Closed on May 10, 2016, 3:54pm UTC

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