How Web Authentication (Cookies, Sessions, JWT) Actually Works
Authentication on the web often feels confusing not because it is complicated, but because its core ideas are rarely explained in a clean order. This post builds that order. We will start from the nature of the web itself, explain cookies and server-side sessions as a single coherent model, then expand outward to JWT and why it fits modern distributed systems. The goal is not to overwhelm you, but to give you a mental model you can reuse. ...
