How to handle file downloads with JWT based authentication?

Question

I\'m writing a webapp in Angular where authentication is handled by a JWT token, meaning that every request has an \"Authentication\" header with all the necessary informati

Answer 1

I would generate tokens for download.

Within angular make an authenticated request to obtain a temporary token (say an hour) then add it to the url as a get parameter. This way you can download files in any way you like (window.open ...)