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File Tokens RFC #58

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Accessing files currently requires either files to be public or need user session with user that have access permission. It's mainly painful for image previews that we want to show publicly. For this reason, we want to introduce file tokens. The tokens will be linked to specific file and will be passed in URL for previews and downloads to provide access.
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We could also mention how this is problematic with some browsers that don't supports Appwrite's secure cookies.

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This particular feature doesn't require any supporting libraries.
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We might need to use JWT tokens for validating the tokens and their permissions. This is because we might not be able to access our DB for validation when serving cached images.

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Not sure I understand completely

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