# Why validate auth token in local cache?

**URL:** https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/why-validate-auth-token-in-local-cache/4374
**Category:** Runtime Framework
**Tags:** authentication
**Created:** [September 21, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/why-validate-auth-token-in-local-cache/4374 "2023-09-21T15:26:41Z")
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### Author: ![xbt1024](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/4da419/32.png) [@xbt1024](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/xbt1024)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/why-validate-auth-token-in-local-cache/4374/1 "2023-09-21T15:26:41Z")

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Why does it continue to validate whether the parsed token is in the local cache or not? It doesn’t work in distributed servers I think.

> <https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama/blob/master/server/api.go#L411>

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### Author: ![mofirouz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.heroiclabs.com/mofirouz/32/1523_2.png) [@mofirouz](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/mofirouz)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/why-validate-auth-token-in-local-cache/4374/2 "2023-09-25T07:47:25Z")

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Are you referring to Nakama Enterprise? Have you caught a bug? Can you tell us more?