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Re:JSON Web Tokens vs. Sessions by blazespin on Saturday June 18, 2016 @04:13PM (#11930408)
yeah, but the problem with that is you're just using the token as a session id.
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Re:JSON Web Tokens vs. Sessions by nawitus on Sunday June 19, 2016 @08:13AM (#11932712)
It's subtly different - you can store all the actual data in the token.
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