We all have doubts about what to use when implementing authentication at client side,whether I save the token I get from the server as cookie or should i use the local storage of browser. Here I will point out some of the differences between cookie and token. You can decide what fits more into your application.
Cookie
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Token
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Automatically included in all requests
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We must manually include in the requests
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Cookie is unique to each domain. We have different cookies for
amazon, eBay, google etc.
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We can send token to any domain
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Requset:
Headers
Cookie:{}
Body{
Name:’ABc’
}
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Requset:
Headers
Authorization:’adbdghgber495yjfkhjhl’
Body{
Name:’AB’
}
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Cookies bring state to stateless http protocol
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