# Tutorial - Adding JWT Auth To Rasa Chat Widget

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/tutorial-adding-jwt-auth-to-rasa-chat-widget/56532>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [December 14, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/tutorial-adding-jwt-auth-to-rasa-chat-widget/56532 "2022-12-14T04:40:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/tutorial-adding-jwt-auth-to-rasa-chat-widget/56532/1 "2022-12-14T04:40:36Z")

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I’ve seen a few old posts with people asking how to setup jwt auth for the Rasa Chat widget so I wrote a blog post about it, I’m not sure what else can be in the data payload but at least using the `sender_id` it seems to work, hope this helps.

> **[Adding JWT Auth To Rasa SocketIO C](https://www.devopswithbrian.com/adding-jwt-auth-to-rasa-socketio-chat-widget/)**
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> In this blog post we are going to talk about how to take your existing or new Rasa chatbot and ensure it has JWT auth setup for the Rasa Chat Widget which uses SocketIO for the connection.  If you don't specify a jwt\_key option it won't be...