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Verifying Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity. Counts count towards apiAPI call quota?

This question pertains to StackExchange API.

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1) Does usage of this apiStack Exchange API endpoint count towards api call quota usage? :

http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/read-access-tokens

(The mostThis is the most promising apiAPI call I found for verifying the validity of an access_token.)

(I'm I'm doing user authentication, not StackExchange apiStack Exchange API calls.)
My application's cache acts as the first level for checking whether a user is still logged in, but when a call slips through, it has to hit some apiAPI call on stackexchange apiStack Exchange API to verify whether the token is still valid.

 

2) Which gets me to my second question:
Is there a purpose-built endpoint just for verifying the validity of an access_token? GitHub
GitHub apparently has:

#check-an-authorization ("OAuth applications can use a special API method for checking OAuth token validity without running afoul of normal rate limits for failed login attempts")

Verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity. Counts towards api call quota?

This question pertains to StackExchange API.

§

1) Does usage of this api endpoint count towards api call quota? (The most promising api call I found for verifying the validity of an access_token)

(I'm doing user authentication, not StackExchange api calls.)
My application's cache acts as the first level for checking whether a user is still logged in, but when a call slips through, it has to hit some api call on stackexchange api to verify whether the token is still valid.

2) Which gets me to my second question:
Is there a purpose-built endpoint just for verifying the validity of an access_token? GitHub apparently has:

#check-an-authorization ("OAuth applications can use a special API method for checking OAuth token validity without running afoul of normal rate limits for failed login attempts")

Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity count towards API call quota?

Does this Stack Exchange API endpoint count towards quota usage? :

http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/read-access-tokens

(This is the most promising API call I found for verifying the validity of an access_token.)

I'm doing user authentication, not Stack Exchange API calls.
My application's cache acts as the first level for checking whether a user is still logged in, but when a call slips through, it has to hit some API call on Stack Exchange API to verify whether the token is still valid.

 

Which gets me to my second question:
Is there a purpose-built endpoint just for verifying the validity of an access_token?
GitHub apparently has:

#check-an-authorization ("OAuth applications can use a special API method for checking OAuth token validity without running afoul of normal rate limits for failed login attempts")

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Verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity. Counts towards api call quota?

This question pertains to StackExchange API.

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1) Does usage of this api endpoint count towards api call quota? (The most promising api call I found for verifying the validity of an access_token)

(I'm doing user authentication, not StackExchange api calls.)
My application's cache acts as the first level for checking whether a user is still logged in, but when a call slips through, it has to hit some api call on stackexchange api to verify whether the token is still valid.

2) Which gets me to my second question:
Is there a purpose-built endpoint just for verifying the validity of an access_token? GitHub apparently has:

#check-an-authorization ("OAuth applications can use a special API method for checking OAuth token validity without running afoul of normal rate limits for failed login attempts")