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Token-based authentication (also known as JSON Web Token authentication) is a new way of handling authentication of users in applications. It is an alternative to session-based authentication.

The most notable difference between the session-based and token-based authentication is that former relies heavily on the server. A record is created for each logged-in user.

Token-based authentication is stateless - it does not store anything on the server but creates a unique encoded token that gets checked every time a request is made.

Unlike session-based authentication, a token approach would not associate a user with login information but with a unique token that is used to carry client-host transactions. Many applications, including Facebook, Google, and GitHub, use the token-based approach.

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GNU GPLv3. Copyright (c) Valentin Popov.