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Acey1
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

token is gone after refresh

so i'm working on a website that uploads images to a folder and for the first day it works just fine nothing is wrong then the day after when i tried it again it says the access token is invalid ...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago
Acey1 wrote:
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and now the access token is gone and asks me to generate a new one
i generated it and refreshed 3 more times
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Hi Acey1,

Your explanation is not very clear. What you mean with generated it? Also, what exactly you have refreshed? Refresh is automatic process!

Regular access token is valid for 4 hours only. After that it could be "refreshed" with refresh token acquired on initial authentication. Have you received refresh token? Did you use it on your refresh or you mean something else?!

Probably you got confused by "advertisement" of already dropped long time access token feature. Despite issued earlier long time access tokens can still be used, new issued tokens are no longer "long time". Just take this in mind and use the refresh token instead.

Hope this gives direction.

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