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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift
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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

by Angus Yeung
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
10h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using web authentication

A Swift web framework uses a web browser's sessions to persist state across multiple HTTP requests. A session is temporary because your session cookie may be deleted sometimes, depending on the policy settings for cookie persistence. The session stores individual data in a browser pertaining to the usage by a unique user who comes to visit your web application. When a session is started, the web application sends a cookie to the web browser. The web browser will store each application's cookie to maintain state throughout a session. The interaction between your web browser and web application is illustrated in this sequence diagram:

Your Vapor application uses a unique ID to identify a user's session. With the ...

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