How To Debug JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)

Written by lornajane | Published 2020/09/18
Tech Story Tags: web-development | jwt | security | debugging | front-end-development | programming | coding | debug

TLDR Many modern web applications use JWTs (JWTs) for authentication. When things don't work, it can be tricky to work out why. This post aims to give you some tactics for understanding and correcting problems with JWT. It should be three sets of garbled-looking alphanumeric strings (technically, upper and lower case characters, numeric digits, `+` and `/` are permitted, with `=` used for padding), separated by dots. Sometimes the problem we think is the token is actually something completely different!via the TL;DR App

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Written by lornajane | Polyglot programmer, open source enthusiast and published author. Based in Huddersfield, UK. She/her
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/09/18