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fny on March 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Cookies vs. JWT vs. OAuth

Sometimes you don't have cookies? Like with mobile apps. With JWT you can also have uniform auth across mobile and web apps, and when done right is a beautiful thing™.

Also cross domain/app data signing.

tatersolid on March 5, 2018 [–]

> Sometimes you don't have cookies? Like with mobile apps.

A cookie is just an HTTP header. Any mobile app that can speak HTTP can use cookies.

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