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-jwtauth - JWT middleware for Go 1.7+ HTTP services
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+jwtauth - JWT authentication middleware for Go HTTP services
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 The `jwtauth` http middleware package provides a simple way to verify a JWT token
 from a http request and send the result down the request context (`context.Context`).