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How would you use the Authorization header to implement server side session data?

Not a web dev. So do I understand it correctly that it's not so much the server side of this that's the issue, after all the Authorization header contains a nice token, but rather how to safely store the token client side without using cookies?

I think they mean storing an identifier in local or session storage and then sending it in the header.

Identifier in local storage could be stolen by 3rd party JavaScript. Anybody who wants to use local storage for sensitive information should read why there is a httpOnly cookie attribute.

If you are running third party JS on your site they can just make requests to your server now. Once JS is loaded it is running in the context of your domain. No they can’t do it once the user closes the browser but third party JS is XSS in action.

And I am not suggesting using local storage for it. I am suggesting adding browser support for standard/generic login UI. Basically think basic auth, just not so basic.

> Basically think basic auth, just not so basic

It's like technobros trying to invent an inferior train with each pod iteration.

It doesn't work with basic multi page sites though.

Oh right, strictly for spas.

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