How to override services coupling caused by IdentityServer3.accesstokenvalidation

Question

I have an identityserver4 which validates tokens sent along with the requests my APIs receive.

To do that I am using identityserver3.accesstokenvalidation.

In startup:

 JwtSecurityTokenHandler.InboundClaimTypeMap = new Dictionary<string, string>();
 app.UseIdentityServerBearerTokenAuthentication(new IdentityServerBearerTokenAuthenticationOptions
    {
       Authority = Configurations.AuthorizationAuthority,
    });

Now I might face cases where server running identityserver4 is shortly (multiple seconds) unavailable.

If this happens the service containing my APIs will not be able to run saying that:

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

I want my API service to start even if IdentityServer server is not running, is there some kind of configuration Identityserver3.accesstokenvalidation provides to overcome this issue?

Answer 1

Set DelayLoadMetadata to true.