Level 80
@arnissolle You can’t. The cookie is encrypted.
Use a more appropriate API authentication mechanism such as Passport if you need to give third parties access to your data.
May 12, 2021
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Level 3
Retrieve the user id from session cookie
Hey,
I'd like to find the user id from the (string) session cookie (laravel_session). A third party person in the project is using my API, but only send the cookie laravel_session in the header to authenticate the user... I know it's not the best, but I cannot doing otherwise.
Many thanks!
Level 3
I'd love to have the ability to do that, but I can't... really...
I mean, if Laravel can retrieve the user from the session token I could do it manually too!?...
The project have a web / login interface, and the mobile developer log the user through a webview, get the cookie "laravel_session" and then send me back via my API (same laravel project so, same encrypted key).
It's ugly, but I'm only the guy who does the maintenance...
Level 3
I'd like to have something like this: Auth::viaSessionToken('my_laravel_session_token')->user()
I know it doesn't work, but I'd like something like this.
Level 80
The project have a web / login interface, and the mobile developer log the user through a webview, get the cookie "laravel_session" and then send me back via my API (same laravel project so, same encrypted key).
@arnissolle Christ. No, no, no.
Use Passport.
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