Comparing token-based authentication and session-based authentication

This blog post introduces the basic concepts of both token-based authentication and session-based authentication, with their pros and cons. This could help readers to choose the proper authentication scheme for their application.

Generally speaking, the first step in using an application is signing in or authentication, where the end-user provides their identity credentials to successfully log in. After this step, the identity system (i.e. identity provider, auth server, etc.) knows who the user is and what resources they have access …

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