andriajah Fri Jul 2020 2 years ago

Localstorage Vs Cookies For Auth Token Storage - Why Httponly Cookies Are Not Better!

I often get asked whether it's better to use (http-only) cookies than localStorage to store auth tokens. It's one of the biggest misconceptions: http-only cookies are NOT protecting you the way you might think they do, localStorage is a perfectly viable solution for storing auth tokens.

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