Add HTML Response to an API Endpoint Call in Okta Workflows

September 30, 2025

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How to add HTML response to an API endpoint call in Okta Workflows?

This guide will guide you through customizing the API endpoint call with HTML in Okta Workflows.

The following flow shows how to send a rich response (HTML) when someone invokes a flow using an API endpoint.

How the flow works

The API Endpoint card calls a flow through a URL.
The Text-Compose card creates a response in HTML format.
The Flow Control-Return Raw card returns the HTML response to the caller (the browser in this example).

This image shows the API endpoint settings. The Invoke URL returns the HTML response.

When calling the URL, the browser shows this response:

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