Commit 8521c9e8 authored by Orit Golowinski's avatar Orit Golowinski Committed by Evan Read

Added to Docs Recommendation for access token expiration

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Read more about [GitLab as an OAuth2 provider](oauth2.md).
NOTE:
We recommend that OAuth access tokens have an expiration. You can use a `refresh_token` to refresh tokens. Integrations may need to be updated to refresh tokens prior to expiration, which is based on the [expires_in](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#appendix-A.14) property in the token endpoint response.
A default refresh setting of two hours is tracked in [this issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/336598).
### Personal/project access tokens
You can use access tokens to authenticate with the API by passing it in either
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