Authentication

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Melissa Stock edited this page May 28, 2019 · 1 revision

Intro to Authentification

HTTP request contain a header with field: Authorization Basic <credentials>
base64 is used to encode username:password combinations

JSON Web Token

Used to securely send information between two places as a JSON object
Used to confirm authorization
Tokens are more secure compared to username:password combos
Tokens consist of three parts: Header, Playload, Signature. Ex xxxxx.yyyyy.zzzzz