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Remember-me Services

In this chapter, we’ll add the ability for an application to remember a user even after their session has expired and the browser is closed. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Discussing what remember-me is
  • Learning how to use the token-based remember-me feature
  • Discussing how secure remember-me is, and various ways of making it more secure
  • Enabling the persistent-based remember-me feature, and how to handle additional considerations for using it
  • Presenting the overall remember-me architecture
  • Learning how to create a custom remember-me implementation that is restricted to the user’s IP address

This chapter’s code in action link is here: https://packt.link/WEEx2.

What is remember-me?

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