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Eight identity providers were probed on both `.well-known/openid-configuration` (OIDC
Discovery 1.0) and `.well-known/oauth-authorization-server` (RFC 8414) on 2026-10-05. The two documents
are the same abstract thing — "how do I talk to your authorization server" — standardized a few
years apart, and a client that assumes one well-known path is a safe fallback for the other will be wrong
in at least four distinct ways:

| Provider | RFC 8414 path | Relationship to the OIDC document |
|---|---|---|
| Google | HTTP 200 | **Field swap**: drops `scopes_supported`, adds `op_policy_uri`/`op_tos_uri`/`service_documentation` |
| GitLab | HTTP 200 | **Strict superset**: identical plus one extra field, `registration_endpoint` |
| Okta | HTTP 200 | **Subset-plus-vendor-field**: drops every ID-token/JWKS field, adds `identity_chaining_requested_token_types_supported` |
| Red Hat SSO (Keycloak) | HTTP 200 | **Byte-identical** to the OIDC document |
| Auth0 | HTTP 200 | **Byte-identical** to the OIDC document |
| Microsoft (`common`/`organizations`/`consumers`) | HTTP 404 | **Not implemented** |
| Salesforce | HTTP 404 | **Not implemented** |
| Apple | HTTP 302 | **Not even a clean miss** — falls through to the public website's generic `/filenotfound` redirect, with tracking cookies set on an unauthenticated discovery probe |

No two of the eight behave the same way, and the two "identical" cases (Keycloak-based Red Hat SSO, and
Auth0) are the only pair that agree with each other. A client written to try RFC 8414 first and fall back
to OIDC discovery — or vice versa — needs to tolerate all four shapes: extra fields it must ignore,
missing fields it must not assume exist, a 404 it must treat as "try the other path," and (Apple) a
redirect to an unrelated 200/404-shaped HTML page it must not mistake for a discovery document. A second,
independent axis compounds this: Microsoft's OIDC issuer is a literal unresolved `{tenantid}` template
on its two actually-multi-tenant discovery variants (`common`, `organizations`), not a real issuer string,
so RFC 8414 §3's "compare `issuer` byte-for-byte against the token's `iss` claim" validation cannot
even be performed from the discovery document alone on those two variants — only `consumers` (a fixed
GUID) and a concrete tenant-id URL resolve to a literal issuer.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 07:31Z–08:10Z UTC, synthesized from 8 pwx-scout source records this lane published live the same session.

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