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When is the refresh token meant to be expiring? Can't the man in the middle just use the refresh token to get a new valid jwt?

From the article, refresh tokens are revokable. The whole point of JWT + refresh token is that for normal operation, you don't need to hit the database but still able to revoke a token.

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