There is a method that is using cookies to login users and i don't know it's name. It's setting a unique token to the cookie each time a user logs in. The token is visible and it is set in 1 cookie. There is also a second cookie, which is having a hash in it. Based on these 2 cookies we have:
Question: what is the name of this method?
The entire cookie-based authentication works in the following manner: The user gives a username and password at the time of login. Once the user fills in the login form, the browser (client) sends a login request to the server. The server verifies the user by querying the user data.
Cookie authentication uses HTTP cookies to authenticate client requests and maintain session information. It works as follows: The client sends a login request to the server.
Therefore, you need to supply the token/cookie on every request for authentication by the server. The frontend stores the token or cookie and uses it to make subsequent requests to the server until the cookie or token expires.
You now procedure pretty well. Name doesn't matter much.
I think you are speaking about: Remember-Me Authentication
I think you might be looking for something like OAuth. OAuth has become a sort of "standard" when it comes to token based authentication.
Here's some literature: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5849
I found section 2.3. Token Credentials particularly similar to what you were talking about...
The response contains the following REQUIRED parameters:
oauth_token
The token identifier.
oauth_token_secret
The token shared-secret.
For example:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded oauth_token=j49ddk933skd9dks&oauth_token_secret=ll399dj47dskfjdk
It's also important to note that through my understanding, token based authentication is only more secure if all requests are being made through an SSL connection. If not, 3rd parties can grab and imitate the tokens. So yeah, hope this is what you're looking for.
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