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Get the JWS Payload as a String

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Demonstrates Jws.GetPayload, which returns the payload of a loaded JWS as text, decoded using the given charset.

Background. In practice, validate the signature before trusting the payload. Getting the payload retrieves the signed content.

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Chilkat2 PHP
<?php

use Chilkat2\Jws;

$jws = new Jws();

// Load the JWS compact serialization.
$jwsCompact = 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.VGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgY29udGVudCB0byBzaWduLg.<signature>';
try {
    $jws->LoadJws($jwsCompact);

    // Return the JWS payload as text, decoded using the given charset.
    $payload = $jws->GetPayload('utf-8');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo $payload, "\n";