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I think the distinction is that, if you intend to have a publicly accessible API, tokens are preferred vs cookies. For your own mobile clients, doesn't matter

• bogomipz 8y ago
  Why are tokens preferred over cookies for a publicly accessible API?
  • bpicolo 8y ago
    There are all sorts of cases where managing cookies is annoying when interacting with an API, like via curl. There might be other reasons as well, but making consumption easy is probably reason enough