Headless Identity Implementation Guide
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Set Up an External Client App for Headless Identity
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
As part of the external client app setup, you enable the Authorization Code and Credentials Flow. With this flow, you can set up headless login. Enabling this flow is also a prerequisite for enabling headless registration. You also define what Salesforce data your app can access with scopes and configure other security settings and access policies. And you define a callback URL, which you use as the redirect_uri parameter during headless flows.
After you create an external client app, you get a consumer key, or client_id. During headless flows, your app passes the consumer key to Salesforce to identify itself.