# How to Implement OIDC Back-Channel Logout

DevFeed: [How to Implement OIDC Back-Channel Logout](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-implement-oidc-back-channel-logout-and-why-almost-nobody-has-16040.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://workos.com/blog/oidc-back-channel-logout>)

Author: WorkOS

Published: 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [WorkOS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/workos-blog.md>)

Topics: [OpenID connect (OIDC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oidc.md>), [Single sign-on (SSO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sso.md>), [JSON Web Tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jwt.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

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## AI overview

This tutorial explains OIDC back-channel logout, including provider discovery, endpoint registration, form-encoded logout requests, and logout-token validation. It also describes how session-specific and user-wide logout work and notes limitations acknowledged by the specification.

## Source excerpt

It is the one standard that can end a session your app already issued, it has been final since 2022, and almost nobody implements it. Here is the whole mechanism, the validation your endpoint owes, and the two limitations the spec admits to itself.