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Auth&Auth.md

Authentication and Authorization

  • There are two ways to handle these in web applications.

  • Using sessions method or jwt tokenized way to handle the auth and auth.

Handling Sessions

  • express-session express module with built in cookies based session management system and also integrate with stores to save the sessions.

  • jsonwebtoken for managing the authentication and session management, it is stateless.

  • passportjs for managing the session with local strategy and asessionslso OAuth

JSON Web Token

  • Consist of three parts

    • Header(Algorithm & token type)
    • Payload(data)
    • Signature(Verification Sign)

Cookies

  • Cookies are set in the server on the login request and sent to the client using the Set-Cookie header in the response and there after sent from the client for all the requests to identify the user.

Options used in the cookies are as follows:

  • Secure => Used to tell the browser to send cookies over https only.
  • HttpOnly => Makes the cookies accesible only in the server, client side js cannot access it using document.cookie.
  • SameSite => Blocks cross origin request
  • Domain and Path => These can be changes accordingly for security
  • Expires or Max-Age => This is used to persist the cookie for the specified time
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