Summing up

We just saw two techniques to help secure your Tornado application as well as an example of how to implement user authentication with the @tornado.web.authenticated decorator. In Chapter 7, we’ll look at how to extend the concepts we’ve discussed here in an application that authenticates against external web services like Facebook and Twitter.

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