Hi I m trying to get something like the enclosed diagram to

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Hi I m trying to get something like the enclosed diagram to work I can t find a way to get the user id from the cookies set by supertokens maybe this setup doesn t make sense I was thinking I d be able to get an user id from the sAccessToken cookie but I don t manage to verify its signature using the keys provided by the jwt recipe s get jwks function

rp · Answer

hey < DemiSel>

rp · Answer

the sAccessToken is not a JWT To get the JWT you should extract the jwt from the session on the frontend and send it to the backend for verification

rp · Answer

See our docs on session with JWT

DemiSel · Answer

Alright I was hoping to get rid of Authorization headers Thanks for the quick answer have a nice day

rp · Answer

in that case you can use our verifySession function on the backend

rp · Answer

and that will work with sAccessToken

rp · Answer

but then you would have to init supertokens backend SDK in other python services as well with the session recipe

DemiSel · Answer

I think I ll keep using authorization headers rather than adding a dependency in all services

rp · Answer

yea Makes sense

rp · Answer

We are working on a change in which the sAccessToken is the JWT itself in which case the method you originally planned would just work ~1 month away

DemiSel · Answer

Great looking forward to it