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Flask Framework Cookbook

Flask Framework Cookbook

By : Shalabh Aggarwal
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Flask Framework Cookbook

Flask Framework Cookbook

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By: Shalabh Aggarwal

Overview of this book

If you are a web developer who wants to learn more about developing applications in Flask and scale them with industry-standard practices, this is the book for you. This book will also act as a handy tool if you are aware of Flask's major extensions and want to make the best use of them. It is assumed that you have knowledge of Python and a basic understanding of Flask. If you are completely new to Flask, reading the book from the first chapter and going forward will help in getting acquainted with Flask as you go ahead.
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Simple session-based authentication


In session-based authentication, when the user logs in for the first time, the user details are set in the session of the application's server side and stored in a cookie on the browser. After that, when the user opens the application, the details stored in the cookie are used to check against the session, and the user is automatically logged in if the session is alive.

Note

SECRET_KEY should always be specified in your application's configuration; otherwise, the data stored in the cookie as well as the session on the server side will be in plain text, which is highly unsecure.

We will implement a simple mechanism to do this ourselves.

Tip

The implementation done in this recipe is only to explain how authentication basically works at a lower level. This approach should not be adopted in any production-level application.

Getting ready

We can start with a Flask app configuration as seen in Chapter 5, Webforms with WTForms. The application's configuration will...

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