Authentication & Authorization: OAuth

728x90

SMALL

Authentication vs Authorization

Learn the difference between authentication and authorization and some best practices in developing a login system.

Set up your Google account.

Set up your Facebook account.

Check out Udacity's awesome course on Applied Cryptography if you are interested in learning more about these concepts

Here is a blog on creating a your own auth system with Flask.

Investigate OAuth and build third-party sign-in into your web applications using Google's authentication services.

Use a local permission system to protect pages based on each user, not just whether that user is logged in.

Discover additional OAuth providers and add Facebook authentication in your application, giving more choices for third-party auth.

728x90

LIST