Custom API tokens
Authentication based on tokens has been around for quite a while and rightfully, given the common use of APIs, tokens have proved to be one of the best ways of handling authentication for a bunch of users. While there are other means of authentication, the main features that this authentication provides are that it is mobile-application ready, and has improved security and extensive scalability which when it works as implied is more than enough for smooth authentication. Any significant web application that you might have used, like any social media hub, makes use of token-based authentication and we will go through the reasons why they took that path. Given that the protocol of HTT (HTTP) is stateless, the authentication of ...
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