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Talk to me about this, "Since the nonce will already have been consumed by the first request, the second request will be rejected."

What if the nonce was still valid for the second response because your server detected that the connection was dropped for the first response?

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That's an interesting possible solution if you're in control of the server. If you're using a third-party vendor like Auth0 to handle the redirect callback, then of course you're beholden to their implementation.

In Auth0's case, it appears the nonce is consumed early in the handling of the callback. In my correspondence with them, I confirmed that they do see that the first request is aborted (in the form of a log), but they take no action as a consequence.

The server can't reliably detect that.

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