Qatar University OpenID Connect API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Qatar University Single Sign-On ( / OAuth 2.0) OpenID…
  version: '1.0'
  summary: Qatar University's own institution-operated OpenID Connect provider at sso.qu.edu.qa.
  description: 'Qatar University operates its own identity provider at `sso.qu.edu.qa` on a WSO2 Identity

    Server, and it is the strongest machine-readable contract in this profile.'
  contact:
    name: Qatar University
    url: https://www.qu.edu.qa/
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-09-01'
    method: derived
    source: Transcribed from the live OpenID Connect discovery document at https://sso.qu.edu.qa/oauth2/token/.well-known/openid-configuration (200, application/json, captured to examples/qatar-qu-sso-openid-configuration.json), plus live probes on 2026-09-01 of https://sso.qu.edu.qa/oauth2/jwks (200, RS256 signing key), https://sso.qu.edu.qa/oauth2/userinfo (400, {"error":"invalid_request", "error_description":"Bearer token missing"}), https://sso.qu.edu.qa/oauth2/token (405 on GET) and https://sso.qu.edu.qa/identity/metadata/saml2 (200, application/xml, entityID sso.qu.edu.qa). No endpoint was called with a credential of any kind.
    x-operator: institution
servers:
- url: https://sso.qu.edu.qa
  description: Qatar University Single Sign-On (WSO2 Identity Server)
security: []
tags:
- name: OpenID Connect
  description: Authorization, user info and session management.
paths:
  /oauth2/authorize:
    get:
      tags:
      - OpenID Connect
      operationId: authorize
      summary: OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect authorization endpoint
      description: Browser-facing authorization endpoint. Supported response types are `code`, `id_token`, `token`, `id_token token` and `device`; response modes are `query`, `fragment` and `form_post`; PKCE is supported with `S256` and `plain`.
      parameters:
      - name: response_type
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - code
          - id_token
          - token
          - id_token token
          - device
      - name: client_id
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: redirect_uri
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uri
      - name: scope
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - openid profile email
      - name: state
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: code_challenge
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: code_challenge_method
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - S256
          - plain
      responses:
        '302':
          description: Redirect back to the client's `redirect_uri` with a code, token or error.
  /oauth2/userinfo:
    get:
      tags:
      - OpenID Connect
      operationId: getUserInfo
      summary: OpenID Connect UserInfo endpoint
      description: Returns claims about the authenticated end user. Responses may be signed with RS256.
      security:
      - bearerToken: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: UserInfo claims.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '400':
          description: 'Missing or malformed bearer token. Observed 2026-09-01 without a credential: `{"error_description":"Bearer token missing","error":"invalid_request"}`. Note this is a 400, not the RFC 6750 401 with a `WWW-Authenticate` header.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAuthError'
              examples:
                observed:
                  value:
                    error: invalid_request
                    error_description: Bearer token missing
  /oidc/logout:
    get:
      tags:
      - OpenID Connect
      operationId: endSession
      summary: RP-initiated logout
      description: End-session endpoint. Back-channel logout is supported and session-aware.
      responses:
        '302':
          description: Redirect after session termination.
  /oidc/checksession:
    get:
      tags:
      - OpenID Connect
      operationId: checkSession
      summary: OpenID Connect session-management check_session_iframe
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Session management iframe.
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  schemas:
    OAuthError:
      type: object
      description: RFC 6749 section 5.2 error object.
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        error_description:
          type: string
      required:
      - error
  securitySchemes:
    bearerToken:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: Access token issued by this provider, presented on the UserInfo endpoint.
    clientSecretBasic:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: OAuth 2.0 client credentials in the Authorization header (client_secret_basic).
    clientSecretPost:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: '`client_secret_post` — client_id and client_secret carried in the form body. Modelled here as a named scheme because OpenAPI has no first-class representation for it.'