Tag: JSON
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User Authentication using REST API and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) – Step 5
Simple Login via Unique ID Create a new file login.php file inside user folder and use the following code
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User Authentication using REST API and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) – Step 4
Create user folder and Create a new file called create_user.php and Following steps to be performed for this 1. We need to set headers on this new file so that it will only accept JSON data from a specific URL. 2. Connect to database and register table 3. Assign submitted data to object properties 4. Use the create…
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What is JWT?
JWT is JSON Web Token that defines a way for securely transmitting information between different parties as a JSON object. This information can be verified and trusted because it is digitally signed. JWTs can be signed using a secret (with the HMAC algorithm) or a public/private key pair using RSA. Why use JWT? JWTs are…
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Session Vs JWT
Session is used in a single-server application by session ID. A server will need to find a valid session ID on every HTTP request. If your application needs multiple servers, you cannot use session IDs for user authorization. JWT helps solve the multi-server authorization problem by storing the authorized user information on the client-side, not…