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title: 'Tutorial: Manually Download a Connection Profile Using a Token URL'
canonical: https://openvpn.net/as-docs/v3/tutorials/tutorial--manual-download-token-url/
product: Access Server Docs
description: Access Server provides administrators with a token URL feature, allowing you to give users the option to download connection profiles.
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# Tutorial: Manually Download a Connection Profile Using a Token URL

## Overview

Access Server's token URL is a method of providing a connection profile to a user's OpenPVN client.

This tutorial describes how to download the profile without the **openvpn://import-profile/** URL prefix. You can send such a URL to a user without needing to send username and password credentials. Opening the URL downloads the connection profile to the user’s device, allowing them to import it into an OpenVPN client.

For more information, refer to the [Token URL](https://openvpn.net/as-docs/v3/token-url.md) topic.

## Prerequisites

- An installed Access Server.
- Admin Web UI or CLI administrative access.

## Step 1: Manually download the profile using a token URL

1. Create the token URL on the Access Server using either the [Admin Web UI](https://openvpn.net/as-docs/v3/tutorials/tutorial--token-url-admin-web-ui.md) or [CLI](https://openvpn.net/as-docs/v3/tutorials/tutorial--token-url-cli.md).
2. Copy the URL and remove the ‘openvpn://import-profile/’ prefix.
3. Use the resulting ‘https://’ URL to download the profile like any normal file.
4. Import the resulting .ovpn file into your VPN client.

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