Tag: jwt

  • User Authentication using REST API and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) – Step 6

    User Authentication using REST API and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) – Step 6

    Create user with JSON Web Token Almost all the process is similar as we done in previous step to create the user but now we do the same thing with JWT. For this we have to perform the following steps: Download composer using command in api folder using composer require firebase/php-jwt Create new file core.…

  • What is JWT?

    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…

  • Session Vs JWT

    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…