Chapter 6. Authenticating in Flask
Authentication is an important part of any application, be it web-based, desktop, or mobile. Each kind of application has certain best practices of handling user authentication. In web-based applications, especially SaaS-based applications, this process is of utmost importance, as it acts as the thin red line between the application being secure and unsecure.
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Simple session-based authentication
- Authenticating using the Flask-Login extension
- Using OpenID for authentication
- Using Facebook for authentication
- Using Google for authentication
- Using Twitter for authentication
Introduction
To keep things simple and flexible, Flask, by default, does not provide a mechanism ...
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