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Authentication & Production Server

Web Tokens

JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object.

You should use Web tokens for Authorization and information exchange.

Structure of a web Token

• Payload
• Header
• Signature

define

• The header typically consists of two parts
• The second part of the token is the payload, which contains the claims. Claims are statements about an entity
  • Registered claims
  • Public claims
  • Pivate claims

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JWT

The JWT is just an authorization token that should be included in all requests:

• The access token is usually short-lived
• The refresh token lives a little bit longer

Install:

1.  poetry add djangorestframework_simplejwt
   

2. from rest_framework_simplejwt import views as jwt_views
   

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