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How JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) work

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How JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) work

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- [Instructor] APIs allow us to make requests directly to a server or data store without having to go through a UI. But software creators need to make sure that those APIs are secure. You wouldn't want to have a stranger able to make an API call to access your bank account, for example. The most common way to secure APIs is through a JWT, or JSON web token. This token is generated through a POST request. The username and password are sent to the application and if they're valid, a JWT is generated. This JWT can then be used in all requests to interact with the application. So, let's generate a JWT. Let's open up our contact list collection to see our two folders, and we're going to click on the three-dot menu of the Basic Endpoint Tests folder. Then, we're going to choose add request. We're going to give our new request a name. We're going to call it Login and click return. And now, in the HTTP verb section, we…

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