So, who is JWT?

[Zeb_Carter]

Who is JWT and why does the Author's Dashboard have to check with him to start?

 

[TxRad]

He's the old security guy who keeps the riff raff out of the place.

 

[MrPixel]

Ha!

JSON Web Token. Tx is right, it's a security exchange. Both sides have encrypted keys (tokens) that are verified to be doubly-certain the user and the server are who they say they are.

 

[shakna]

JSON Web Token.

And just to expand the nested acronym, JSON is JavaScript Object Notation. It's a format for expressing structured data that was originally fairly Java Script centric, but is now used pretty much everywhere.

(Also, weirdly, apparently Lit censors the word for JS, if you write it properly...?)

 

[stickygirl]

Is this a Microsoft thing because I've no idea what Zeb means? Life is never dull in Gates world

 

[NotWise]

Is this a Microsoft thing because I've no idea what Zeb means? Life is never dull in Gates world

No, it's a web tech thing that didn't come from Microsoft.

 

[SamScribble]

Ha!

JSON Web Token. Tx is right, it's a security exchange. Both sides have encrypted keys (tokens) that are verified to be doubly-certain the user and the server are who they say they are.

Thank you for clearing that up. I thought that it might be something to do with J Walter Thompson, colloquially known as as JWT, a long established global advertising agency that has since been merged with Wunderman to form Wunderman Thompson. Although why it was popping up during Lit logon, I couldn't quite figure out. Still, you know what these advertising people are like.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You know I knew all of this, except for the old security guard. It was just supposed to be a funny. Tex got it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Is this a Microsoft thing because I've no idea what Zeb means? Life is never dull in Gates world

When you start up your authors dashboard it displays somethings it's going to do, it used to be three, now it four. Checking JWT was added sometime this month or maybe it was last week... my memory for some things seems to be taking a walk on me. Maybe I better check with JWT.

 

[TxRad]

When you start up your authors dashboard it displays somethings it's going to do, it used to be three, now it four. Checking JWT was added sometime this month or maybe it was last week... my memory for some things seems to be taking a walk on me. Maybe I better check with JWT.

It was several months ago, Zeb.

 

[stickygirl]

When you start up your authors dashboard it displays somethings it's going to do, it used to be three, now it four. Checking JWT was added sometime this month or maybe it was last week... my memory for some things seems to be taking a walk on me. Maybe I better check with JWT.

Nopes - never seen that. Maybe it's the speed of your dial-up When you see how much code is behind each page, it's not surprising if the petticoats and bloomers sometimes show.

Side note, I read yesterday that the upgraded software for the Hadron Collider can handle 30 million frames per second

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Nopes - never seen that. Maybe it's the speed of your dial-up When you see how much code is behind each page, it's not surprising if the petticoats and bloomers sometimes show.

Side note, I read yesterday that the upgraded software for the Hadron Collider can handle 30 million frames per second

No, my dialup is a 5G connection that averages 20MB a second, that MegaBytes, not Megabits. It's the server that is slow. If you've never seen what I'm talking about, clear your cache and then try it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It was several months ago, Zeb.

Probably. Thanks. Sometime those days just zip right on by and suddenly is a new year.