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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Chapter 19. Security in Django

Ensuring that the sites you build are secure is of the utmost importance to a professional web applications developer.

The Django framework is now very mature and the majority of common security issues are addressed in some way by the framework itself, however no security measure is 100% guaranteed and there are new threats emerging all the time, so it's up to you as a web developer to ensure that your websites and applications are secure.

web security is too large a subject to cover in depth in a single book chapter. This chapter includes an overview of Django's security features and advice on securing a Django-powered site that will protect your sites 99% of the time, but it's up to you to keep abreast of changes in web security.

For more detailed information on web security, Django's archive of security issues(for more information visit https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/releases/security/) is a good place to start, along with Wikipedia's web application...