It's a common practice to secure web applications from a malicious website, email, blog, instant message, or a program attacking a trusted site for which the user is currently authenticated to prevent unwanted action. We often call this cross-site request forgery.
Implementing cross-site request forgery in Go is fairly easy using the Gorilla CSRF package, which we will be covering in this recipe.
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