Keeping Refresh Tokens Secure A short-lived access token helps improve the security of our applications, but it comes with a cost: when it expires, the user needs to log in again to get a new one. Frequent re-authentication can diminish the perceived user experience of your application .
Read moreWhen should I refresh my token?
A refresh token just helps you re-validate a user without them having to re-enter their login credentials multiple times . The access token is re-issued, provided the refresh token is a valid one requesting permission to access confidential resources.
Read moreHow do I refresh my token?
To use the refresh token, make a POST request to the service’s token endpoint with grant_type=refresh_token , and include the refresh token as well as the client credentials if required .
Read moreHow do you handle token expiration in flutter?
when the token expires, it should give a response code 401. In this case you can call a new function to get a fresh token and replace the old token with the response received.
Read moreHow do you refresh a firebase token in flutter?
It only refreshes when :
Read moreHow do I refresh user token?
To use the refresh token, make a POST request to the service’s token endpoint with grant_type=refresh_token , and include the refresh token as well as the client credentials if required .
Read moreWhy do we need refresh token?
So why does a web application need a refresh token? The main reason to use refresh tokens in web applications is to reduce the lifetime of an access token . When a web application obtains an access token with a lifetime of five to 10 minutes, that token will likely expire while the user is using the application.
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