Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Newbie - A clarification on why we use "cookies" for authentication?

My understanding about cookiesSay our users are trying to log in with Google Authentication (gAuth). People seem to send a cookie to the database and send it the cookie back to the web app. The cookie will give the web app information about the relationship e between the user and the database. It's useful in things such as seeing if the user is already registered in our database.​My understanding on Why We Use CookiesBut we could also do another approach: Why not let users log in with gAuth and then do a HTTP GET request to see if the user is in our database? This is more complicated, but I guess that's the reason why cookies exist? In essential, Cookies are basically a simple "GET" method that's used to get user info on our databases. Are there any other takeaways I missed?

Submitted September 01, 2020 at 11:24PM by badboyzpwns

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