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cess11today at 1:30 PM1 replyview on HN

If a service is sending auth tokens as URL parameters, stop using it. Those are always public.


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dangetstoday at 2:38 PM

I don't disagree with the advice (especially for long lived tokens), but query parameters are encrypted during transit with https. You still need to worry about server access logs, browser history, etc that might expose the full request url.