Token expired - Common causes and quick fixes (2024)

FAQs

How do you fix your token has expired? ›

This usually happens when a user session lasts longer than the token's lifespan. To resolve this issue, you can either refresh the token manually or set up an automatic token refresh in your application. Another solution is to increase the token's lifespan, but this could potentially compromise security.

It is not possible to restore an expired or revoked token, you or the application will need to create a new token. This article explains the possible reasons your GitHub token might be revoked or expire. Note: When a personal access token or OAuth token expires or is revoked, you may see an oauth_authorization.

If you attempt to use an expired token, you'll receive a "401 Unauthorized HTTP" response. When this happens, you'll need to refresh the access token. You shouldn't request a new token for every API call made, as each token is good for an hour and should be reused.

My Security Token has expired or is invalid. What does this mean? This means that you need to refresh your web browser. If that doesn't work, please close your web browser and then re-open it. If you're still having issues, you may need to clear your browser's cache.

Clear Cache and Cookies

Sometimes you will receive the token error if your browser is unable to create a secure cookie. This can oftentimes be solved by clearing your cache and cookies! Here's how: Copy and paste chrome://settings/clearBrowserData into a Chrome tab.

On the Settings page press on the soft token identity that you want to reactivate. In this example, press on the AnyBank identity. 4. In the identity specific settings, select Reactivate to clear your existing soft token identity.

To refresh your access token and an ID token, you send a token request with a grant_type of refresh_token . Be sure to include the openid scope when you want to refresh the ID token. If the refresh token is valid, then you get back a new access token, a new ID token, and the refresh token.

To handle token expiration gracefully, the authentication function in the client library for each platform (JavaScript, Objetive-C, Java) allows us to set a cancel callback that is triggered when a token expires.

So the best way to handle this is to have the next line after you obtain the token (and this is true for both JWT Grant or Authorization Code Grant) perform a simple calculation that tells you when the token expires by adding the number of seconds to the value of Now() (each language has a similar method).

What does invalid or expired token mean? ›

This error means that the app has experienced an authentication problem and can't verify your account information. If it occurs, you'll be automatically signed out of your account. You need to sign in to your account to continue working on your projects.

The “Invalid Token” message indicates that a link has either been used previously, or has expired. To generate a new link, reset your password again through the main login screen. If you continue to have trouble, ensure you are referencing the most current Password Reset link.

ID tokens expire one hour after creation. You cannot change this expiration time. Under the hood, the client SDKs refresh the ID token using a long-lived token we call a refresh token. The refresh token is used to generate a new ID token every hour which allows the client SDKs to continue to work seamlessly.

After expiration, the user gets a new refresh token in the same family, or refresh tokens that share a family ID, or a new access token/refresh token pair. To learn more, read Refresh Token Rotation.