Authenticate android app user

Reshad Farid

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Oct 18, 2016, 2:04:42 PM10/18/16

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Hello.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40111081/sailsjs-simple-authentication-not-working

I found out that sails is using server side sessions ( which can be handled by browsers perfectly fine ) but not by android apps by default.

My question is, what should I do to achieve this for my android app? Do I need to return some sort of api key or a token of some sort?

if so, please suggest an example or tutorial since I am a newbie with sails :)

Jaime Giraldo

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Oct 19, 2016, 12:51:04 PM10/19/16

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Sails sets a "sails.sid" cookie each request it receives. You have to handle that cookie from Header "set-cookie", set it to a variable in you android app and then each request you compound, attach the "Cookie" header. When the header Cookie is present set-cookie will not come anymore.

r.li...@ag-isw.at

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Mar 31, 2017, 2:45:02 AM3/31/17

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Another possibility would be the use of JSON Web Tokens.

https://thesabbir.com/how-to-use-json-web-token-authentication-with-sails-js/

Robert Main

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Mar 31, 2017, 3:09:28 AM3/31/17

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I think json web tokens is the way forward here

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