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by kodablah 3034 days ago
JWT's are just special signed formatted strings with a couple of dots in the middle. I only use them for API tokens, and I don't use them statelessly, I just use them so the client knows the format and can check expiration inside it. Sure many use them to pass around signed state, but that's a choice. They're just a container for a stateful session ID for me.