Canadian Blue Cross Authentication

generated: '2026-07-25'
method: searched
source: https://pac.bluecross.ca/.well-known/openid-configuration
docs: null
scope: >-
  Blue Cross Canada publishes no API authentication programme — no API keys, no client
  registration, no partner OAuth onboarding. The one machine-readable authentication contract
  live anywhere in the federation is the OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 authorization server that
  Pacific Blue Cross (pac.bluecross.ca) serves for Umbraco Content Delivery API member sign-in.
  It is captured here verbatim because it is real, anonymous, and machine-readable — but it
  authenticates website members against a CMS, not a claims, benefits, or eligibility API.
summary:
  types: [oauth2, openIdConnect]
  api_key_in: []
  oauth2_flows: [authorizationCode, refreshToken]
  pkce: [S256, plain]
  public_api_auth: none
  human_login_only: true
schemes:
- name: pacific-blue-cross-member-oidc
  type: openIdConnect
  openIdConnectUrl: https://pac.bluecross.ca/.well-known/openid-configuration
  issuer: https://pac.bluecross.ca/
  sources:
  - well-known/canadian-blue-cross-pac-openid-configuration.json
  endpoints:
    authorization: https://pac.bluecross.ca/umbraco/delivery/api/v1/security/member/authorize
    token: https://pac.bluecross.ca/umbraco/delivery/api/v1/security/member/token
    userinfo: https://pac.bluecross.ca/umbraco/delivery/api/v1/security/member/userinfo
    end_session: https://pac.bluecross.ca/umbraco/delivery/api/v1/security/member/signout
    revocation: https://pac.bluecross.ca/umbraco/delivery/api/v1/security/member/revoke
    jwks: https://pac.bluecross.ca/.well-known/jwks
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    response_types: [code]
    response_modes: [form_post, fragment, query]
    scopes: [openid, offline_access]
  - flow: refreshToken
    scopes: [offline_access]
  token_endpoint_auth_methods: [client_secret_basic, client_secret_post]
  revocation_endpoint_auth_methods: [client_secret_basic, client_secret_post]
  id_token_signing_alg: [RS256]
  code_challenge_methods: [plain, S256]
  subject_types: [public]
  claims: [aud, exp, iat, iss, sub]
  parameters:
    claims_parameter_supported: false
    request_parameter_supported: false
    request_uri_parameter_supported: false
    authorization_response_iss_parameter_supported: true
  notes:
  - Backed by OpenIddict — the token endpoint returns OpenIddict error_uri values
    (https://documentation.openiddict.com/errors/ID2029) on an unauthenticated POST.
  - No dynamic client registration endpoint is advertised; client_id must be provisioned
    out of band, and no self-serve registration page is published.
  - Claims set is the bare JWT registered-claim minimum (no profile/email claims advertised).
- name: rfc8414-authorization-server-metadata
  type: oauth2
  sources:
  - well-known/canadian-blue-cross-pac-oauth-authorization-server.json
  note: >-
    /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns the same document as the OIDC discovery
    endpoint (byte-identical), so it is recorded as one authorization server presented under
    both RFC 8414 and OIDC Discovery.
absent:
- api_keys
- http_basic_api_auth
- http_bearer_api_key
- mutualTLS
- client_credentials_flow
- dynamic_client_registration
- partner_developer_onboarding
member_plan_auth:
- plan: Alberta Blue Cross
  host: ab.bluecross.ca
  model: web session login (member / plan sponsor / provider portals); Cloudflare bot protection
  discovery: none
- plan: Ontario / Quebec Blue Cross (Canassurance)
  host: on.bluecross.ca
  model: web session login
  discovery: none
- plan: Medavie Blue Cross
  host: www.medaviebc.ca
  model: web session login (member, plan sponsor, health-professional portals)
  discovery: none
- plan: Saskatchewan Blue Cross
  host: www.sk.bluecross.ca
  model: web session login
  discovery: none
- plan: Manitoba Blue Cross
  host: www.mb.bluecross.ca
  model: web session login
  discovery: none